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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
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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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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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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Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.
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To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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One faces the future with one's past.
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Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself
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When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
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men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
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It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
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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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Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
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Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.
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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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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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doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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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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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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