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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
Translator
Writer
Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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Changes
Nothing
World
Geopolitics
Geography
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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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Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
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Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.
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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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Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.
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Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
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Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
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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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When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
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You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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The rich are always afraid.
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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.
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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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I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
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Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.
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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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