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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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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Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.
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Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.
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None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.
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Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.
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Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.
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Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
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Love dies only when growth stops.
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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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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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All birth is unwilling.
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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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
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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
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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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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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the heart never grows old.
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Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.
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