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"The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain."
"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
"One hand washeth another, and both the face."
"Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face."
"The wind in ones face makes one wise."
"There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces."
"Idiotic reply, June. Why don't you punch him in the face while you're at it. I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic"
"I have to force a smile off my face as I sit limply in my seat... Then, just as I'm congratulating myself for such a stellar plan."
"I take a step toward him and grin cheerfully. "With all due respect, I don't see the Republic tacking up wanted posters with your pretty face on them."
"I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life."
"The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips."
"He pushed away from her and raised his arm, forcing his stump into her face. "A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister. Don't ask me to rule."
"A sweet face oft hides a sinner's heart."
"Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day."
"There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same."
"... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one."
"She's my friend, the boy said simply. That's who she is and that's enough for me. As Minli looked at the buffalo boy, aglow with happiness against his poor surroundings, she saw it was enough for him. More than enough, as the smile that kept curling up on his face told her."
"What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all?"
"I don't need to read the news. I see it on the faces of everyone I meet."
"There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency of seeking something, and their embraces and their tossing limbs did not avail to make them forget, but only reminded them of what they sought"
