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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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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 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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when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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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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