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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
Autobiographer
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Missionary
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
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It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.
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Love alone could waken love.
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No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.
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to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe. from Pavilion of Women page 292
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starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
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I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.
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War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
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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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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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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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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
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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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Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
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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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It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
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