"I want to get physical, let's get into physical, let me hear your body talk, your body talk."
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"Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be."
"The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races."
"Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose."
"Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the door closing just as quickly as it opened, a shifting Tetris pattern of bodies."
"Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center."
"Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature."
"For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves."
"The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]"
"A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body."
"Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much."
"Maybe I could just James Bond my way down the cable if I draped the scarf over it, clinging to the ends as my body careened down it to safety-- Careened. What an ugly word that was"
"Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body."
"Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation."
"I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it."
"The Soul is the voice of the body's interests."
"The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations."
"As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill So my body leaves no scar On you and never will"
"The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul."
"We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot."