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It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
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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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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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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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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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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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
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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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Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.
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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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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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Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.
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The rich are always afraid.
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What the common man cannot understand he hates.
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
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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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