"Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism."
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"I am willing to learn how to take good care of my body."
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"There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little different, or there might have been none at all. They would probably add, that, as life and man have been produced, that shows that their production was possible; and therefore, if not now then at some other time, if not here then in some other planet of some other sun, we should be sure to have come into existence; or if not precisely the same as we are, then something a little better or a little worse."
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"My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige."
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"The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project"
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"The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal."
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"There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them."
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"A healthy mind breeds a healthy body and visa versa!"
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"They only can shoot a body but they cannot shoot my dreams."
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"The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters."
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"The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]"
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"Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see."
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"We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience."
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"Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body."
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"A feeble body weakens the mind."
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"Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists."
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"Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot."
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"The only decent bone in her body was mine."
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"Your legs were heaven, your breasts were the alter, your body was the holy land."
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"If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window."
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