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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
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe. from Pavilion of Women page 292
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Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.
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Love alone could waken love.
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
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We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
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What the common man cannot understand he hates.
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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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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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One faces the future with one's past.
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... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.
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Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.
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People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.
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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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starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
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Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
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I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
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She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.
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Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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