The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women. - Pearl S. Buck

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We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism.

Pearl S. Buck

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

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Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

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The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

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The 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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