Pearl S. Buck Quotes - Page 3

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• Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

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  Home, Men, Needs

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

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• We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

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  Learning, Joy, Healthy

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir”, p.60, Open Road Media

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• A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

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  Together, Want, Able

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

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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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  Mistake, Failure, Positive Thinking

  1943 What America Means To Me, ch.10.

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• Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.

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  Life, Honesty, Integrity

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• On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.

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  Love, Earth, Without Love

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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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  Disease, Privilege, Results

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

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• Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

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  Generations, Betrayed, Young

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.129, Open Road Media

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• An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

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  Wall, Women, Intelligent

  "America's Medieval Women". Harper's Magazine, August 1938.

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• If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

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  Children, Failure, Teaching

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• The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

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  Family, Mother, Children

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• What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

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  Children, Neglect, Born

  "Children for Adoption". Book by Pearl S. Buck, Ch. 3, 1964.

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• When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

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  Want, Facts, Proof

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.254, Open Road Media

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• The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

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  Country, Real, United States

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• Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.

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  Wish, Prejudice, Want

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• Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

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  Love, Family, Mom

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

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• Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

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  Freedom, Men, Ties

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• In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.

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  Lines, Infinity, Possibility

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• One faces the future with one's past.

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  Time, Memories, Motivation

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• starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

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  World, Unnecessary, Hunger

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

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  Daughter, Mother, Son

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• Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

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  Yield, Wind, Civilization

  "China, Past and Present". Book by Pearl S. Buck, Ch. 1, 1972.

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• Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

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  Fate, Premises, Fatalism

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• The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

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  Giving Up, Men, White

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