| If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. |
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- Pearl S. Buck |
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| A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. |
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- Pearl S. Buck |
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| We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. |
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- Pearl S. Buck |
more quotations on [Responsibility] |
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| Some mothers 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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- Pearl S. Buck |
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| Hunger makes a thief of any man. |
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- Pearl S. Buck |
more quotations on [Justice] |
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| 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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- Pearl S. Buck |
more quotations on [Happiness] |
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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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- Pearl S. Buck |
more quotations on [Technology] |
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| Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up. |
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- Pearl S. Buck |
more quotations on [Solitude] [Loneliness] |
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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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- Pearl S. Buck |
more quotations on [Mistakes] |
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| If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. |
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- Pearl S. Buck |
more quotations on [Childhood] [Society] |
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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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- Pearl S. Buck |
more quotations on [Goals] |
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| To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. |
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- Pearl S. Buck |
more quotations on [Hope] |
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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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- Pearl S. Buck |
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