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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
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Human Rights Activist
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
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A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.
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the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
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The rich are always afraid.
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At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.
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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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men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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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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We must have hope or starve to death.
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when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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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 learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
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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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