-Pearl S. Buck
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- “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible—and achieve it, generation after generation.”
- “All the big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible.”
- “There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has not been able to control social life. His continued advance may well depend on his deliberately refraining from exercising controls which are now in his power. In the past, the spontaneous forces of growth, however much restricted, could usually still assert themselves against the organized coercion of the state. With the technological means of control now at the disposal of government, it is not certain that such assertion is still possible; at any rate, it may soon become impossible. We are not far from the point where the deliberately organized forces of society may destroy those spontaneous forces which have made advance possible.”
- “Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
- “Many shall be restored that now are fallen, and many shall fall that now are in honor.”