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Love alone could waken love.
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
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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Love
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.
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No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.
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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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Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
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Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
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Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
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I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.
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The rich are always afraid.
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A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
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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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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
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Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
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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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Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
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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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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
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Love dies only when growth stops.
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