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For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.
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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If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
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men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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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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Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.
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As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
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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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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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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
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I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.
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We must have hope or starve to death.
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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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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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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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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'd never get anything done if you did.
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