"After 40, a man is responsible for his face."
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"Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face"."
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"Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches."
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"Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation."
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"The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face."
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"I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out."
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"We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem."
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"Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face."
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"Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it."
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"He had a face like a blessing."
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"There's not many people on the face of the earth that don't know Harry Potter is Daniel Radcliffe. He's had that since he was eleven years old, yet he hasn't changed since the day I met him."
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"He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another."
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"We must generate courage equal to the size of the difficulties we face."
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"Let the other person save face."
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"When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love."
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"I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans people had to face back then."
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"The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence."
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"I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them."
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"Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring."
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"a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed."
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