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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

Pearl S. Buck

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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
Autobiographer
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Missionary
Novelist
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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Discovery
Relationship
Women
Men
People
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Feminism

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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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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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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
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to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe. from Pavilion of Women page 292
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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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It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.
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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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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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Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.
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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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men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
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Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
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Love dies only when growth stops.
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Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
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