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“The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.”

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Author:Peter Mandelson

“As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.”

World God Faces Turns Mercy Property Rounds Glasses Invisible Visible Hung Chamber Bounty

Book:CXLV Espository Sermons Upon the Whole 17th Chapter of the Gospel According to St. John: Or, Christ's Prayer Before His Passion Explicated and Both Practically and Polemically Improved

Source: CXLV Espository Sermons Upon the Whole 17th Chapter of the Gospel According to St. John: Or, Christ's Prayer Before His Passion Explicated and Both Practically and Polemically Improved

“Maybe you guys will get lucky this year and face the Orioles in the World Series”

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Author:Dan Quayle

“To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.”

“I personally would rather raise my child in New York. It seems like it would be easier to make sure she or he gets a whole bunch of experience and understanding of the world. But, people in general think it's easier to raise a kid when you don't have so much stuff in your face.”

People Thinking World Children Whole Seems Would Be Kids Faces Stuff Understanding New York Easier Raises Bunch My Children Your Face

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.”

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Author:Jimmy Wales

“These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for, anyway, in this hard-edged, worried world? Into this cultural uncertainty Gregory Orr's spirited meditation on the surprisingly tensile strength of poetry in the face of profound suffering and grief presents a welcome fresh view of the ancient human instinct to cry out and to praise.”

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Author:Patricia Hampl

“Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and lead to unforeseen pitfalls down the road. Noam Wasserman uses vivid anecdotes and deep research to expertly outline the key early choices that define a startup, making The Founder's Dilemmas an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.”

“Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them.”

Source: The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World

“Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant, and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president.”

“In the world of late-night comics, Letterman made us feel any hometown boy from Indianapolis could poke fun at celebrities and politicians and do it right to their faces.”

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Author:Chris Matthews

“I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.”

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Author:Yelawolf

“Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.”

“The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.”

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Book:Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living

Source: Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living

“If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Looks Faces Given Window Look Up Eastern

Author:Freya Stark

“There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige”

World Firsts May Faces Desire Fame Achievement Independence Reputation Prestige Independence And Freedom Adequacy

Book:A Theory of Human Motivation

Source: A Theory of Human Motivation

“For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside, towards an art of arrangement whose expressiveness depends less and less upon its elements imitating the objects of the external world.”

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Book:The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

“All of us have schnozzles... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.”

Ifs World Mind Character Faces Laughing Humour Habit

Author:Jimmy Durante

“Irritability is immaturity of character. If you are subject to being cross and unpleasant with others for no apparent reason, you need to come face-to-face with the fact that you are thinking too much of yourself. After all, your feelings are not the most important thing in this world.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Important Reason Character Facts Feelings Faces Too Much Subjects This World Crosses Important Things Face To Face Immaturity Thinking Too Much

Author:Lawrence G. Lovasik

“Every real form is a world. And any plastic surface is more alive than a face from which stares a pair of eyes and a smile.”

World Real Eye Faces Form Alive Surface Staring Pairs Plastic

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, because every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.”

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Book:Where is science going?

Source: Where is science going?

“The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation-must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.”

World Firsts Faces Politics Results Power Path Genius Method Mediocre

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Never before was it as incumbent upon every members to restate loyalty and exemplify fraternal obligation by consistent life and unimpeachable character. But these must be reinforced by a growing consciousness of the responsibilities that Alpha Phi Alpha faces in the world today, where, if ever the problems which beset us are to be solved and a way of deliverance discovered, it must be by the application of those principles upon which we are founded.”

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Author:Jewel

“If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.”

Ifs World Faces Racism Racist Finding Yourself Elites

Author:Alvin Ailey

“So here we are in a country with more wheat and corn and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything in the world-there's not a product that you can name that we haven't got more of than any other country ever had on the face of the earth-and yet we've got people starving. We'll hold the distinction of being the only nation in the history of the world that ever went to the poor house in an automobile.”

“You could go outside today and have a glum face, or you could put a smile on your face and go out into the world, even though you don't feel like it - that's selfless giving!”

World Giving Feels Today Faces Yoga Karma Your Face Selfless Karma Yoga Smile On Your Face Selfless Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Why do we love the idea that people might be secretly working together to control and organise the world? Because we don't like to face the fact that our world runs on a combination of chaos, incompetence and confusion.”

People World Ideas Facts Might Running Together Faces Chaos Confusion Combination Working Together Our World Incompetence

Author:Jonathan Cainer

“All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. The outcome of his thought, ceasing to be renunciatory, flowers in images. It frolics-\-\-in myths, to be sure, but myths with no other depth than that of human suffering and, like it, inexhaustible. Not the divine fable that amuses and blinds, but the terrestrial face, gesture, and drama in which are summed up a difficult wisdom and an ephemeral passion.”

“With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee For thou art worthy, Thou unassuming commonplace Of Nature, with that homely face, And yet with something of a grace Which love makes for thee!”

World Littles Art Faces Grace Sweet Worthy Thee Commonplace Daisies Homely Unassuming

Author:William Wordsworth

“Everything in the world has its two faces, however. Weeds sometimes blossom into artful flowers. Beauty walks hand in hand with ugliness, sickness with health, and life tiptoes around in the horned shadow of death. The trick is to recognize which is which and to recognize what you're dealing with at the time.”

World Two Sometimes Hands Faces Walks Flower Shadow Tricks Sickness Weed Ugliness Hand In Hand Tiptoes Shadow Of Death Health And Life

Author:Tiffany Baker

“You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin-just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain.”

“At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God’s face.”

World Children Ends Faces Sunset Packs End Of The World Smashing Crayon

Author:Craig Stone

“I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.”

World Faces This World Tasks Harder Heroic

Author:James Salter

“Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.”

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Author:Stephen King

“Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat.”

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Book:History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

“Where the light is, and each thing clear,Separate from all others, standing in its place,I drink the time and touch whatever's near,And hope for day when the whole world has that face:For what assures her present every year?In dark accidents the mind's sufficient grace.”

World Years Mind Whole Light Faces Dark Clear Grace Drink Standing Accidents Whole World Sufficient

Book:Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge

Source: Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge

“Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached its ultimate achievements, and the stars themselves are scattered no more widely than the seed of Adam, even then we shall still be like ants crawling on the face of the Earth. The ants have covered the world, but have they conquered it - for what do their countless colonies know of it, or of each other?”

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Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of one day seeing it all. Seeing in its total form, while wearing the mask, from the distance of death. And there, in the eternal destiny, to seek the face I had before the world was made.”

World Made Matter Faces Form Spirit Destiny Seeing One Day Eternal Distance Mask

Author:Joel-Peter Witkin

“And the earth under your feet, the rain over your face upturned, the stars spinning all around you in the brazen glory: this is for you, you, you. These are for you-gifts-these are for you-grace-these are for you-God, so count the ways He loves, a thousand, more, never stop, that when you wake in the morning you can't help turn humbly to the east, unfold your hand to the heavens, and though you tremble and though you wonder, though the world is ugly, it is beautiful, and you can slow and you can trust and you can receive each moment as grace.”

World Way Moments Helping Hands Earth Beautiful Faces Turns Heaven Stars Wonder Morning Grace Feet Thousand Glory Rain Ugly East Over You Your Face Spinning Brazen

Author:Ann Voskamp

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.”

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Author:James A. Baldwin

“Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge this mythical world picture from the past. If this is impossible, it has to face the question whether the New Testament proclamation has a truth that is independent of the mythical world picture, in which case it would be the task of theology to demythologize the Christian proclamation.”

“After 9-11, the President had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead, by exploiting the politics of fear, instigating an optional war in Iraq before finishing a necessary war in Afghanistan and instituting policies on torture, detainees and domestic surveillance that fly in the face of our values and interests, President Bush divided Americans from each other and from the world.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost merciless God; no human agency can help him; his church is a means to political and social organization rather than a bridge to deity, for no priest can have greater knowledge of the divine way than he himself; no friend can console him - in fact, he should distrust all men; in the same fashion, Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.”

“In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place, and this was the Gods' decree: "Lo, We have given to man five wits: he discerneth folly and sin; He is swift to deride all the world outside, and blind to the world within: So that man may make sport and amuse Us, in battling for phrases or pelf, Now that each may know what forebodeth woe to his neighbor, and not to himself.”

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Book:The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection

Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection

“Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces.”

World Faces Universe Stars My Own Space Watches Sky Involved Mirrors Regard Surface Shells

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“The people of America are red, white, black, yellow, and all the shades in between. Their eyes are blue, black, and brown, and all the shades in between. Their hair is straight, curly, kinky, and most of it in between. They are tall and short, slim and fat, athletic and anaemic, and most of them in between. They are the different peoples of the world becoming more and more the "in between." They are a people creating a new bridge of mankind in between the past of narrow nationalistic chauvinism and the horizon of a new mankind--a people of the world. Their face is the face of the future.”

Source: Reveille for Radicals

“The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are being fashioned, demand the elimination of a prodigious mass of noxious by-products which now contaminate the globe. The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.”

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Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques