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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
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A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.
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The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.
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We must have hope or starve to 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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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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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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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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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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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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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
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starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
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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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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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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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