"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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"God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn."
"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."
"If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face."
"We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow."
"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."
"As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not."
"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?"
"Historians are prophets with their face turned backward."
"All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity."
"It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face."
"Good prose is written only face to face with poetry."
"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."
"Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything."
"Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun."
"I don't want no better book than what your face is."