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In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. – Simone de Beauvoir	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket. – Alan Marshall Beck	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in. – Edward Bedore	added by anonymous 14 years ago
So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face. – Lawrence Peter Berra	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Three things you can be judged by your voice, your face, and your disposition. – Ignas Bernstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. – Book of Proverbs	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds. – Black Elk	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success. – Dorthea Bragg	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You may search my time-worn face, You'll find a merry eye that twinkles I am NOT an old lady Just a little girl with wrinkles. – Edythe E. Bregnard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. – Phillips Brooks	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. – Joyce	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor. – Bill Bryson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life's hazards, save one -- neglect. – James D. Bryden	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When it comes to staying young, a mind lift beats a face lift any day. – Marty Bucella	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past. – Noam Chomsky	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year we'll understand that nothing is wasted, that in the economy of our universe even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered. – Mort Crim	added by anonymous 14 years ago
'Bury me on my face,' said Diogenes and when he was asked why, he replied, 'Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.' – Laertius Diogenes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Better and ugly face than an ugly mind. – James	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other. – Douglas H. Everett	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation. – W. C. Fields	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out for you in a blueprint, you don't face facts -- what can stop you If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow. – Ruth Gordon	added by anonymous 14 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 14 years ago
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice. – Friedrich August von Hayek	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. – A. A. Hodge	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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