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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
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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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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there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.
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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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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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The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.
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the heart never grows old.
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
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My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.
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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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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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I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.
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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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Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
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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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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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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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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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