
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, September 10, 1995                   TAG: 9509120001
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A PEARL BUCK SAMPLER:

``But of his land he thought no more what harvest it would bring or what seed would be planted or of anything except of the land itself, and he stooped sometimes and gathered some of the earth up in his hand and he sat thus and held it in his fingers. And he was content ...''

The Good Earth (1931)

``The hope of every race is not in its common people. ...If universal compulsory education has shown us anything it is that comparatively few people can ever become educated. It is the few who are our hope.''

On the Cultivation of a Young Genius (1937)

``There are, of course, innumerable mild-mannered American men and gentlemen who will protest that they have never disliked women - on the contrary, and so forth. It is platitudinous to reply that one often harbors a feeling without being aware of it. ..But if there could be a poll delicate enough to measure the things people will not tell, the mass of men's dislike for women would mount much higher than their liking.''

Of Men and Women (1940)

``Having lived always in China, where there is almost no race prejudice as such, I did not know my own country in this regard. Even my four years in college in a Southern town did not teach me the full meaning of it. College in my day and especially for young women, was a limiting and not an enlarging experience.''

Howard University Commencement Address (1942)

``For learning...is the very heart of life. It is the secret to the enjoyment of life. And when we enjoy life we can accept hardship and deprivation with fortitude, because our treasure is secure. There is always more to know.''

The Delights of Learning (1960)

by CNB