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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

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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Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.
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There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.
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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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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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We must have hope or starve to death.
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you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.
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There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.
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He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.
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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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The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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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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The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.
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there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.
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