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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.

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
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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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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If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.
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The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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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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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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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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A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
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I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
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She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.
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It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
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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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starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
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From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.
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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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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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