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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.

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
Journalist
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Novelist
Screenwriter
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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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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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
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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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There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.
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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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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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War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.
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Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
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I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.
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It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
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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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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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Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
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The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
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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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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.
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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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