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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
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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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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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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The rich are always afraid.
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There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
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the heart never grows old.
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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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No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.
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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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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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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.
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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.
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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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an artist is always seeking revelation.
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If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.
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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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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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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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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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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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