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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
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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John Sedges
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Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
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Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.
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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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It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.
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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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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 basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.
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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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
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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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the heart never grows old.
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No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.
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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
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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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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.
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At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.
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