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"Neither the stone that made you stumble is your enemy, nor the stone that helped you cross the river is your friend! Universe just lives its own life!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society." »Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
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"Sometimes ... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. (Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan)" »Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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"life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone -- Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own." »Adam L. Gordon
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"This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic." »Alexis DeTocqueville
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"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted in the field without becoming part of an edifice. (El Filibusterismo)" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man." »Confucius, Analects, XIV.12
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"Playing dead not only comes in handy when face to face with a bear, but also at important business meetings." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The Moon shows us only one side of its face and there is no man on Earth who can succeed this! Every man’s other face has its time to be seen!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance." »Henri De Regnier
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"Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center." »Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
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"America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world." »George Herbert Walker Bush
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"The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"life is like a vicious circle.... only the ones on the edge know what it is to face Highs and lows" »Siddharth Astir
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"The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them." »D. H. Lawrence
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"There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face, and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life." »Richter
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"Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror." »Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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"Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"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
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"Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." »Jorge Luis Borges
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"life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us." »Andrew Schneider
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"Engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege." »Herbert Hoover
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"One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask." »Yvette Gilbert, (1865-1944)
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"Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions." »Walter Lippmann
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"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind." »Communist Manifesto
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"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone, or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who scribbles on a wall to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do." »John Steinbeck, The Pastures of Heaven, p 56
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