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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
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Human Rights Activist
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Hillsboro
Oregon
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Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
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starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
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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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Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?
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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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No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.
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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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an artist is always seeking revelation.
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One faces the future with one's past.
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Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.
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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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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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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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Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
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