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We must have hope or starve to death.
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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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
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Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
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I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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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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... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.
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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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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
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starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
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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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I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.
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It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.
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