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"The middle years are ones in which children increasingly face conflicts on their own,... One of the truths to be faced by parentsduring this period is that they cannot do the work of living and relating for their children. They can be sounding boards and they can probe with the children the consequences of alternative actions."
"The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end."
"We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method."
"Only when I smell the earth upon my face, will I ever be free, to fly from this place."
"Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we face an immediate and grave danger of destroying the worldwide ecological system that sustains life as we know it."
"I don't get facials. The last time I got a facial was when I first started modeling when I was 15 or 16. It made my face completely break out."
"...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it"
"Penthouse' didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the 1980's, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls' faces."
"She pouted her lips like a gun in my face."
"No, I want big ol' titties in my face!"
"Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power."
"This week a group of activists, known as Anonymous, hacked the Twitter account of the KKK. The KKK is furious. They said Anonymous is just a bunch of cowards who don't have the courage to show their faces."
"You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face."
"He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' broke in anguish from his lips."
"Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%."
"We ought to look the world frankly in the face."
"No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle."
"I don't really read the reviews, but I remember one a long time ago I read that said that I had a face like a potato."
"Le nez de Cle opa" tre: s'il e u" t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different."
"I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face."
