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"Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on."
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"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."

"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."

"Not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside."

"Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down."
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"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."

"To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!' (Buck, 57)"

"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."

"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."

"Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung"

"Just as he lived with them alive, he will live with them dead. Someday he will accept their death as part of his life. He will weep no more. He will carry them in his memory and his thoughts. His flesh and blood are part of them. So long as he is alive, they, too, will live in him. The big wave came, but it went away. The sun shines again, birds sing, and earth flowers."

"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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