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"Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our accounting industry and holding corporate executives responsible for their actions."
"First feed the face, then talk right and wrong."
"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved."
"Everything in business is to get you face to face with people to respond to your offer. You have to realize the Internet is merely a door opening, and it has to be followed up by aggressive sales activity by the business owner."
"Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret."
"If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. This is regarded as probably NOT a quote by Einstein."
"A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face."
"The Spring I seek is in a new face only."
"There are friends and faces that may be forgotten, but there are horses that never will be."
"When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile."
"Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it."
"The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are."
"There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor."
"Features, the great soul's apparent seat."
"It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection."
"A countenance more in sorrow than in anger."
"Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him."
"Knavery's plain face is never seen till used."
"Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face."
"If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue."
