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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
Missionary
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
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Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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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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There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.
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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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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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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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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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An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
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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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God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.
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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
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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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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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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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When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
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Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
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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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None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.
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