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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.

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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when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.
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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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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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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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There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.
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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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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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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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Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
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It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
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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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Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.
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Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.
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The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
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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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Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.
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Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.
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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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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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