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I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

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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Hillsboro
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Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
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Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.
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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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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
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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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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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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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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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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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Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.
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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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The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.
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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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