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"For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer."
"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
Explore more quotes by Pearl S. Buck
"To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!' (Buck, 57)"
"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."
"It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late."
"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."
"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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