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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care."

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Kenny Smith Basketball Player
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"Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism into impersonal and depersonalizing deism, a scheme of rule by alien and implacable abstract metaphysical forces."

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Henry James Author
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"If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify."

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Kevin Bacon Actor
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"Doing the press, it's part of my job, so I do it with a smile on my face, but I'm not comfortable in the hot seat."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?"

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face."

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
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"He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love."

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