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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
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.
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men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
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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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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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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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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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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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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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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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Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
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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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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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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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Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.
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Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
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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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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
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We must have hope or starve to death.
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