"They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins."
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"... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live."
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"James Bevel could do more with young people than any human being on the face of the earth."
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"When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don't keep putting off decisions."
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"The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough."
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"Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom."
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"The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading his masculine shamelessness, and yet it seemed likely enough that the woman was familiar with the failing and need not be shocked by it. He looked at her. Perhaps it was the rich lashes of the downcast eyes that made her face seem warm and sensuous. She shook her head very slightly, and again a faint blush spread over her face."
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"There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet."
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"Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through."
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"You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face."
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"Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited by the Constitution?"
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"Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth."
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"A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat."
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"The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage."
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"This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble."
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"If we are demoralized, sad and only complain, we’ll not solve our problems. If we only pray for a solution, we’ll not solve our problems. We need to face them, to deal with them without violence, but with confidence - and never give up. If you adopt a non-violent approach, but are also hesitant within, you’ll not succeed. You have to have confidence and keep up your efforts - in other words, never give up."
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"The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid."
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"The Divine has loved me as mother, as father, and as friend, behind all friends. I searched for that one Friend behind all friends, that one lover whom I now see glimmering in all your faces. And that friend never fails me."
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"A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly."
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"We see this as a test of their ability to face reality."
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