Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

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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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 solitude  

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

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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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 responsibility  duty  

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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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 goals  

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

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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
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 hope  

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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  

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