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I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.
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
Journalist
Missionary
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Hillsboro
Oregon
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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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Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.
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It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
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Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
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I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.
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All birth is unwilling.
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.
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The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
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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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an artist is always seeking revelation.
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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
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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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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
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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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