Pearl S. Buck Quotes - Page 4

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• The community must assume responsibility for each child within its confines. Not one must be neglected whatever his condition. The community must see that every child gets the advantages and opportunities which are due him as a citizen and as a human being.

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  Children, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

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  Heart, Men, Unity

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• Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

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  Men, Debt, Lost

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• there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

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  Guides, Reciprocity, One Word

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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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• 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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  Light, Soul, Mind

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• When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

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  Religious, Men

  "The Quotable Woman". Book by Elaine T Partnow, 1978.

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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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• 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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• I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

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  Faith, Kindness, Angel

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• An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

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  Laughter, Thinking, Laughing

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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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  Country, New York, Cities

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• Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

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  Essence, Spirit, Formal

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• The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.

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  Arrogance, Raised, Good Will

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.237, Open Road Media

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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 truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

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  Past, Men, History

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

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• though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?

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  War, Men, Hands

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “Dragon Seed: A Novel of China at War”, p.451, Open Road Media

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• an artist is always seeking revelation.

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  Artist, Youth, Revelations

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Goddess Abides: A Novel”, p.159, Open Road Media

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• endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

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  Acceptance, Roots, Joy

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• Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.

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  Country, Strong, Profound

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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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• I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

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  Kindness, Memorable, History

  "Buck: The Mother of All Pearls" by Randee Mia Berman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2015.

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• Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

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  Long, Euthanasia, Smooth

  The Child Who Never Grew Ch. 2

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• Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.

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  Blessing, Love Is, Alive

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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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