"I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way."
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"The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them."
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"In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted he has three sexist bones and his spine is homophobic."
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"It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about us share in our sufferings. The ills of the soul one can hide, but those which attack the body and destroy the faculties cannot be concealed."
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"There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully."
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"The human body is mostly blood and mystery and sadness."
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"I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies."
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"One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that you are who you always have been."
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"Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I'm drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar."
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"Joanna Priestley’s amazing body of animated films have deservedly earned their place in the pantheon of contemporary international animators. Inventively visioned, superbly crafted, and rich with insight into the physical and spiritual dilemmas that confront us all, each new work provides an unexpected pleasure."
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"Take care of your body from the inside out."
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"I think if you're going to get a tattoo, it should be significant, especially when it's all the way up your arms and your body."
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"I shall not cease learning while I live, nor when I arrive in the spirit-world… and when I again receive my body, I shall …still continue my researches"
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"What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body."
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"I feel young, but my body doesn't agree."
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"Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth."
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"What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field."
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"The social body persists although the component cells may change."
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"I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future."
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"The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul."
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