"Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body."
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"There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body."
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"Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols."
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"She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body."
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"I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?"
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"A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth."
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"Erogenous zones are either everywhere or nowhere."
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"You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There's not one part that He doesn't want to make completely whole."
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"There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul."
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"Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs."
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"All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body."
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"I am the love of my life, the marriage between my mind and my body."
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"Kill the body and the head will die."
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"The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit."
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"What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!"
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"Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind."
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"The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely."
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"Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body."
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"A Compassionate state of mind brings inner peace, and therefore a healthier body."
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"People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs."
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