Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Statesman, Founder of Republic
"To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me."
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Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theologian
"Silence in the face of evil is evil itself."
Martin Heidegger
Philosopher
"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself."
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"There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict."
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"Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces."
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"It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked."
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"We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse"
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"When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God."
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"The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie."
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"Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'"
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"We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties."
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"Hope -- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us...A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead."
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"Key to more success is a clean heart and a clean face."
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"I say you call yourself Goldstein, Silverstein, and Rubinstein because you're stealing all the gold and silver and rubies all over the earth - and it's true, because of your thieving and stealing and roguing, and lying all over the face of the planet earth."
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"Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious"
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"I can't hang out as loose as I used to, but I can still go down Jefferson Avenue and look in the faces of winos, pimps and junkies, all the things I'm made of."
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"Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!"
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"I finally had my prostate checked. And I was super-thankful that I taught my asshole to whistle before the doctor stuck his finger in there. The look on his face was priceless."
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"You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty."
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"The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer"
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"Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop."
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"He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it."
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"As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify."
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