"No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul"
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"We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body."
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"Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt."
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"Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body."
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"We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the last moment before quantum transformation. The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body."
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"Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds."
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"Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time."
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"My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body."
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"I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say she loves it and doesn't want to change anything."
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"Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at weddings. I couldn't help myself. In a dramatic gesture, I bolted the door and threw my body across it to prevent her exit. She understood."
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"A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room."
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"There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M."
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"You are the only one who creates in your experience - no one else. Everything that comes to you comes by the power of your thought. If there are changes you would like to make, it will be of great value to begin telling a different story - not only about your body, but about all subjects that have been troubling to you. As you begin to positively focus, getting to feel so good about so many subjects, you will begin to feel the power that creates worlds flowing through you."
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"In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it."
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"Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all."
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"The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures."
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"Facts are to the mind what food is to the body."
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"I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter."
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"That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body."
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"The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political"
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