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"God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique."
"Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?"
"I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not."
"Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing."
"The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion."
"In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My Second City (improvisation) background comes in very handy for accent and body posture."
"I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body."
", and they could name a handful."
"This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions."
"The human heart would never pass the drunk test.... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it."
"The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination."
"If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators… saying they will not tolerate this."
"O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body."
"Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought."
"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."
"Motivate the mind and set your body free!"
"The fact is, there is only one body ideal in fashion, and most likely, you don't have it."
"You can kill the body, but not the spirit."
"Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body."
"There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute to the building of most body parts and their action is channeled through a kaleidoscopic series of environmental influences: embryonic and postnatal, internal and external. Parts are not translated genes, and selection doesn't even work directly on parts."
