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All birth is unwilling.
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
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
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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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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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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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Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.
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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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It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
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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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