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Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

Pearl S. Buck

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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
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Human Rights Activist
Journalist
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.
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You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.
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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.
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Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
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God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.
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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
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It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.
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the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.
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the heart never grows old.
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Men of action, whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of men of action.
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The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.
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Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.
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