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Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
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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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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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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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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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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What the common man cannot understand he hates.
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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 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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We must have hope or starve to death.
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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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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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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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I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.
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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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There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.
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All birth is unwilling.
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Love alone could waken love.
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It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.
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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 artist is always seeking revelation.
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