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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
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Hillsboro
Oregon
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I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
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It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.
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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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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
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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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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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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
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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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All birth is unwilling.
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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
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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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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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Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
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There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.
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French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.
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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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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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