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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
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when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.
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In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
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There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
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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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The rich are always afraid.
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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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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.
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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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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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My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.
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Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.
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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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Men of action, whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of men of action.
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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
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I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.
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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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