"The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body."
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"My body is not a tomb for animals."
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"The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane"
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"The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline."
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"To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough."
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"There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's."
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"Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness."
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"In fact, every place I've been to in Africa has a nice part, but you see the downside. Calcutta , parts of Central and South America , I've seen a lot of dead bodies and a lot of sad poverty and just obliteration."
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"We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!"
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"It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies."
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"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."
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"I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening."
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"I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married."
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"It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body"
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"Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."
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"Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state."
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"It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race."
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"A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring."
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"Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else."
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"Respect for right conduct is felt by every body."
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