Pearl S. Buck Quotes
The common sense of people will surely prove to them someday that mutual support and cooperation are only sensible for the security and happiness of all. Such faith keeps me continually ready and purposeful with energy to do what one person can towards shaping the environment in which the human being can grow with freedom.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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My health is fine.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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One of the great joys of a creative life is that your observations and loose moments aren't lost forever; they live in your work.
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The real need is not for more hospital beds. It's for more primary care and keeping people out of hospital beds and emergency rooms.
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Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.
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People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.
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The common sense of people will surely prove to them someday that mutual support and cooperation are only sensible for the security and happiness of all. Such faith keeps me continually ready and purposeful with energy to do what one person can towards shaping the environment in which the human being can grow with freedom.
