"Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death."
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"...the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body."
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"If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for"
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"As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body."
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"Eleven years after the discovery of their bodies, no one has been held accountable for their murders. The chief suspects in the chain of command, including the camp commander, have never been charged."
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"I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life."
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"Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul."
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"Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge."
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"Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates."
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"We have more indolence in the mind than in the body."
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"Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind."
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"The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease."
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"The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance."
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"Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson. [Unsound minds, like unsound bodies, if you feed, you poison.]"
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"A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit."
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"You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams."
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"Kill the head, the body will die."
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"There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism."
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"Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and mysterious is turning out to be our own planet earth. There is nothing to match it anywhere, not yet anyway."
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"You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'."
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