"Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation."
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"Twist my Body like the Exorcist."
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"I love my body. It's what God gave me!"
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"I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly."
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"We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies."
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"Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind."
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"Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real."
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"If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems."
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"When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves."
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"[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life."
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"I stand in awe of my body."
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"Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls."
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"Your body is the harp of the soul."
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"It is not I who become addicted, it is my body."
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"Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind."
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"The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same organs, the same instincts, the same impulses, the same conflicts, the same fears. Out of this common ground have come what Jung has called the archetypes, which are the common ideas of myths."
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"No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body."
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"The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act."
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"You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being."
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"Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul of Antichrist is the pope, his flesh or body the Turk."
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