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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
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
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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John Sedges
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But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?
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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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It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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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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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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The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
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Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
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We must have hope or starve to death.
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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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