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an artist is always seeking revelation.
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
Translator
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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Youth
Artist
Always
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To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.
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... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
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Love alone could waken love.
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When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
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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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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
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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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Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself
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It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
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Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
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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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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.
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If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.
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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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