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Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face. – Francis of Assisi	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. – Lou Gehrig	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Let's face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independence is an illusion, but heavy dependence isn't healthy, either. The only position of long-term strength is interdependence: win/win. – Greg Anderson	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It seems to me that it is these extremists who are advocating a soft approach. Their oversimplifications and their baseless generalizations reflect the softness of those who cannot bear to face the burdens of a continuing struggle against a powerful and resourceful enemy. A truly tough approach, in my judgment, is one which accepts the challenge of communism with the courage and determination to meet it with every instrumentality of foreign policypolitical and economic as well as military, and with the willingness to see the struggle through as far into the future as may be necessary. Those who seek to meet the challengeor, in reality, to evade itby bold adventures abroad and witch hunts at home are the real devotees of softnessthe softness of seeking escape from painful realities by resort to illusory panaceas. – J. William Fulbright	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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. – Emily Brontë	added by anonymous 10 years ago
This means we must subject the machinetechnologyto control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money. The search of the young today is more specific than the ancient search for the Holy Grail. The search of the youth today is for ways and means to make the machineand the vast bureaucracy of the corporation state and of government that runs that machinethe servant of man. That is the revolution that is coming. That revolutionnow that the people hold the residual powers of governmentneed not be a repetition of 1776. It could be a revolution in the nature of an explosive political regeneration. It depends on how wise the Establishment is. If, with its stockpile of arms, it resolves to suppress the dissenters, America will face, I fear, an awful ordeal. – William O. Douglas	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it... – William James	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house. – Ben Jonson	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. – Sydney J. Harris	added by anonymous 10 years ago
do I know you? now I am very scared of guns mister so please do not point that in my face – Tom Everett	added by anonymous 10 years ago
“The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most affected by racism. Too often, they face denial of basic rights such as access to quality health services and education. Such fundamental wrongs have a long and terrible history.” – Ban Ki-moon	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Girls usually have a paper m‚chÈ face on their wedding day. – Colette	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Necessity has the face of a dog. – Gabriel García Márquez	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. – Henry James	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. – William Makepeace Thackeray	added by anonymous 10 years ago
You know you're over it .... if you don't need to laugh it off and still have a smile on your face. – Siddharth Astir	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. – Iris Murdoch	added by anonymous 10 years ago
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. – Nathaniel Hawthorne	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. – Charlotte Brontë	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone. – Phyllis McGinley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. – Julie Burchill	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Often a noble face hides filthy ways. – Euripides	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal. – Jean Baudrillard	added by anonymous 10 years ago

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