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  1. Pearl S. Buck _ The Eternal Wonder

    Books he would always learn from, for people, great people, put the best of themselves into books. Books were a distillation of people. But people would be his teachers, and people were not in schoolrooms. People were everywhere.
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  2. Pearl S. Buck _ The Eternal Wonder

    That is what I hate most about this war game. It cuts off communication between peoples. We cannot ask questions and so we cannot get answers.
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  3. Pearl S. Buck _ The Eternal Wonder

    This is one of the main reasons I wished to come to America. I wished to see with my own heart if it would be different and it is not. Even here in New York, and I understand it is true of every major city in this vast and beautiful land, there is a Chinatown and a Latin quarter and an Italian section and a Negro neighborhood and blockbusters and riots and all of that as your own fearful civil war continues even one hundred years after it is supposedly over. And look again at the plight of the only real Americans, the American Indians. No, my dear, one cannot really ever know how it is to be anything unless one is indeed that thing.
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  4. Pearl S. Buck _ The Eternal Wonder

    The less intelligent and civilized of the human race continue to reproduce as a matter of course with either no, or at most very little, thought to the future overpopulation and resulting famine or anything else. They go on, generation after generation, reproducing merely because it is their nature to do so. The more intelligent and civilized members of human society, on the other hand, are using birth-control methods in their effort to control population growth and, so, are slowly breeding themselves out of existence or at least into what is already a serious minority.
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  5. Pearl S. Buck _ The Eternal Wonder

    Nothing is destroyed, only changed.
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  6. Pearl S. Buck _ The Eternal Wonder

    Life is the wonder with which we are all infused. …
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  7. Pearl S. Buck _ The Eternal Wonder

    He could have been lonely except that he was never lonely, since he had always been alone.
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  8. Pearl S. Buck _ The Eternal Wonder

    don't know what to tell you," he said slowly. "I have not had time to think much about myself. Wherever I have been-at least until now, I have been mostly alone. The others were always much bigger-much older." He paused to consider himself in the past. "Older in years, that is," he amended. "I've always been too old for myself." She looked at him thoughtfully. "Then you have an old soul.
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  9. Pearl S. Buck _ The Eternal Wonder

    For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about life itself, his own being among others, wherever he lived for the moment, there was his home.
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  10. Pearl S. Buck _ The Eternal Wonder

    Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.
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  11. Pearl S. Buck _ The Eternal Wonder

    His problem was the eternal question: What should he be? Inventor, scientist, artist-the energy he felt surging through him, an energy far more than physical and yet pervading the restlessness of his body, was a burden to him until he could find the path for its release.
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  12. Pearl S. Buck _ The Eternal Wonder

    This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.
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