When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.
Pearl S. BuckChinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
Pearl S. BuckSomehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself
Pearl S. BuckThe mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
Pearl S. BuckThe lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
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