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Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.

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
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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John Sedges
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.
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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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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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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
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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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Love dies only when growth stops.
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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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All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.
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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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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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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
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When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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We must have hope or starve to death.
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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
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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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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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French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.
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you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.
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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.
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