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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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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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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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
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Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.
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Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
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One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?
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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.
