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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.
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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In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.
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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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All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.
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Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
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No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.
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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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doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.
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A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
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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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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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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
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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 cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.
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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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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.
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The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.
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