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A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
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
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Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.
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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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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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The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.
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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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the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
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Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.
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The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.
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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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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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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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Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.
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I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.
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We must have hope or starve to death.
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doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
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In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.
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Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.
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