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" I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. "
Pearl S. Buck
Know
Mind
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" One faces the future with one's past. "
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" We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country. "
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" We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. "
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" Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. "
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" A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. "
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" The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool. "
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" To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. "
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" To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. "
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" I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. "
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" Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. "
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" The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. "
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" Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds. "
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" What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. "
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" Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. "
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" If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. "
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" Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. "
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" Hunger makes a thief of any man. "
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" When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. "
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" All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now. "
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" When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place. "
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" I am mentally bifocal. "
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" Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman. "
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" Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. "
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" A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass. "
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Man
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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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" Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. "
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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. "
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" Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. "
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" Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. "
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" Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession. "
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