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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
John Sedges
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The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
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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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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
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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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I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.
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If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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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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men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
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Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
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All birth is unwilling.
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Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.
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the heart never grows old.
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
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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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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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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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I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.
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What the common man cannot understand he hates.
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you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.
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