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"I haven't been familiar with hard work. It was no problem for me. But first I hitchhiked to Pontiac, Mich. and got a job working in Fisher Body making those 1951 Pontiacs."
"Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike."
"View your body as something God has entrusted into your care."
"Electronic man has no physical body."
"To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms."
"A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic."
"I ran right back to work. My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body."
"Even if I wanted, I cannot do anything. When they die, we always send for their co-religionists. Muslims take the Muslim's body to bury it, Hindus come and take away the dead to be cremated and Christians come and bury their dead."
"I lovingly do everything I can to assist my body in maintaining perfect health"
"We have to come back to basics: learning how to take care of ourselves. Not only learning to love our bodies - and that's a good beginning - but to take care of our bodies and ourselves by learning how to eat and how to think. I think living is really about thoughts and food, and we've got to get back to basics."
"We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body."
"Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind."
"The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies."
"Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species."
"Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies."
"When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body."
"I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head - wherever the music took me. My body followed."
"It's normal to gain weight during pregnancy. It's something that has to happen to your body."
"What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements."
"If I lived a billion years more, in my body or yours, there's not a single experience on Earth that could ever be as good as being dead. Nothing."
