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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.
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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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
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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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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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One faces the future with one's past.
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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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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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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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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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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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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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A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.
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The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.
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I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
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You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.
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men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
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