Pearl S. Buck Quotes
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
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I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
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I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I like those lefties, but when you're hitting, all pitchers look alike. I don't care too much who's throwing or what he throws. When my timing is off, I have trouble; when it ain't, I don't.
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Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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A 'just war' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
