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God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

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
Missionary
Novelist
Screenwriter
Translator
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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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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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
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What the common man cannot understand he hates.
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Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
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It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
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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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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
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Love dies only when growth stops.
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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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When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
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Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.
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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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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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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
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