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The melting-pot idea is futile... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.
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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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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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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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When the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.
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There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
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If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
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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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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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Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.
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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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Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.
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But he had ceased already to value what he had, so immense was his desire for what was yet to come.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
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None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.
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I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.
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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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People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than not, the things their leaders tell them.
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The wild winds had been sown and the whirlwinds were gathering... and I was reaping what I had not sown... None of us could escape the history of the centuries before any of us had been born, and with which we had nothing to do. We had not, I think, ever committed even a mild unkindness against a Chinese, and certainly we had devoted ourselves to justice for them, we had taken sides against our own race again and again for their sakes, sensitive always to injustices which others had committed and were still committing. But nothing mattered today, neither the kindness nor the cruelty. We were in hiding for our lives because we were white.
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The basic discovery about any people, therefore, is the discovery of the relationship between its men and women.
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Chinese were born, it seemed to me, with an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naiveté, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them. To talk even with a farmer and his family, none of whom could read or write, was often to hear a philosophy at once sane and humorous. If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.
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It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.
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No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language was mathematics.
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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You are right, he had said. Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, 'Know thy neighbor as thyself. That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.
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Born:
June 26, 1892
Died:
March 6, 1973
(aged 80)
Bio:
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu, was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in China.
Known for:
The Good Earth (1931)
East Wind: West Wind (1930)
A House Divided (1935)
Dragon Seed (1942)
Imperial Woman (1956)
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