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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
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In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
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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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When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
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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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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
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The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.
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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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Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
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As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
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For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
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In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
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If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
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Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
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