"It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies?"
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"Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth."
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"The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he is doing."
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"I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown."
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"...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief."
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"There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment."
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"Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body."
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"I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found."
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"Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never."
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"You can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and thats what I attempt to do."
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"As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free."
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"Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.""
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"It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants."
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"Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower?"
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"In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body."
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"Words are like bodies; meanings are like souls."
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"A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds."
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"I have a thorough understanding of nutrition, and I feed my body only foods that support health."
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"The # cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts."
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"The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist."
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