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• Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

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  Greed, Phases, May

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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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  Writing, Years, Months

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• To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

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  Long Ago, Essentials, May

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.67, Open Road Media

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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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  Men, Mind, Life Is

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• Love alone could waken love.

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  Love, Alone In Love

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• There is no beauty without order.

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  Order

  Pearl S. Buck (1976). “Mrs. Stoner and the Sea and other works”

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• Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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  Inspirational, Beauty, Order

  "To My Daughters, With Love". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• Hunger makes a thief of any man.

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  Sad, Men, Hunger And Poverty

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Good Earth”, p.154, Open Road Media

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• For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.

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  Men, Evil, Giving

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.

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  Mean, Acceptance, Escaping

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• You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.

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  Strong, Wall, Hands

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters”, p.286, Open Road Media

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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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  Enough, Born, Humans

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• I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their children. I am a firm believer that no marriage can be really happy, and no home a happy one for the children as well, unless man puts woman first and woman puts man first, each for the other the giver of every good gift. Children are the fruit of this total love.

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  Children, Home, Happy Life

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• Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.

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  Anger, Giving, Mind

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.116, Open Road Media

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• It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

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  America, Justice, Diversity

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• Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

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  People, Chinese, Survivor

  1972 China, Past and Present, ch.1.

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• When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

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  Democracy, Stills

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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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  Memorable, Men, Discovery

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• It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

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  Giving

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Good Earth Trilogy: The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided”, p.72, Open Road Media

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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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  Discovery, Religion, Atheism

  "What America Means to Me". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1943.

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• For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as heroically as he likes, and no one laughs at him. It is almost impossible for a man to behave heroically in the cool and ordinary times of peace. But in war anything is allowed him, he is praised and applauded and made much of, as women are excused and allowed for in pregnancy.

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  Running, Real, War

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• Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

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  Children, Taught Us, Able

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

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  War, Reality, Men

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• nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.

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  Daughter, Sex, Son

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• It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

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  Technology, Soul, Rebel

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.71, Open Road Media

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