Pearl S. Buck Quotes
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.
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I was born a singer. I need to do that.
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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.
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We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
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It is absurd to look for perfection.
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A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.
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The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.
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It is often said that women are a civilizing balance to the innately warlike male. By taking care of the killing for women it could be said that men civilized women. When survival was the issue, men killing to protect what women bore was the male form of nurturance.
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So what does it matter where it was when it was hit? We could have sunk it if it'd been tied up on the quayside in a neutral port and everyone would still have been delighted.
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On the surface of the water, a midge vanishes into a hungry ripple. I'm not ready yet. He wonders why, at his age and having come so far, he still feels that. The culmination of his luck is that he will never feel any other way.
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The man who esteems himself as he ought, and no more than he ought, seldom fails to obtain from other people all the esteem that he himself thinks due. He desires no more than is due to him, and he rests upon it with complete satisfaction.
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The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.
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I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.
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I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.
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Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
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A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.
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Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
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My parents are from a whole different culture. My parents are from small-town Louisiana. It's like, if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck, then it's a duck. And if you ain't quacking, you ain't no duck.
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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
