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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No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language was mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. 'And relationships,' he had told her, 'contained the essential meaning of life.'Pearl S. Buck
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Pearl S. Buck
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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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
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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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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
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