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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
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But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?
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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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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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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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an artist is always seeking revelation.
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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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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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I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.
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At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.
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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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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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the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
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All birth is unwilling.
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He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.
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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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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
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