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"For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence."

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear."

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept."

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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
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"Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable."

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"The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!"

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John Calvin Theologian, Reformer
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"It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself."

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Martin Buber Philosopher
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"The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"At the hour of death when we all come face to face with God we are going to be judged on love: how much we have loved, not how much we have done but how much love we have put in our action."

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