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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
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Hillsboro
Oregon
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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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It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.
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We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
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I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.
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The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.
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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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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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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
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Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.
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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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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.
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It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
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The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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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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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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starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
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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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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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