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We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

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
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Pearl Buck
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Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
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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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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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Nothing is menial where there is love.
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
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It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
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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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In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
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When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
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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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