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It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
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
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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The rich are always afraid.
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
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A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
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It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.
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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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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.
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From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.
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