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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
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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Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.
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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
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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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Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.
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My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.
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It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.
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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
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when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.
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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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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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