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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
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Human Rights Activist
Journalist
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
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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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It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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Nothing is menial where there is love.
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I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
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I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.
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men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
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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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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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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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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself
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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
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It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.
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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
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