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"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."
"Once upon a time, there was a civilization in the eastern side of the world. It was one of the most advanced civilizations on the planet that existed during that time.This civilization was the glorious Indus valley civilization. No, I am not talking about India. I am talking about the land of greatness that got lost in time. Today, in the same geographical location of that great civilization, we have a piece of earth, which is known as "India. But do not mistake it to be the same glorious land that existed thousands of years ago, along with other magnificent civilizations, such as the Greeks, the Mayans, the Egyptians, the Babylonians etc."
"It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted."
"Every period in history has its own peculiarities."
"If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties--or, in my case, bits of both decades side by side. Which made things rather confusing."
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"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."
"All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now."
"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."
"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings."
"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."
"This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night."
"Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung"
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