"[A]ll will be raised by the power of God, having spirit in their bodies, and not blood."
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"All things whatsoever God in his infinite wisdom has seen fit and proper to reveal to us, while we are dwelling in mortality, in regard to our mortal bodies, are revealed to us in the abstract, and independent of affinity of this mortal tabernacle, but are revealed to our spirits precisely as though we had no bodies at all."
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"The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees."
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"To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone."
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"[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself."
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"Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints."
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"A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them."
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"When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied."
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"I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ."
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"Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play."
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"When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body."
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"You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional."
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"[This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body."
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"If you sit down with a person, or a watermelon for that matter, when you're stoned and sing into it, the quality of the hallucination is such that there is a way of thinking about it where you could say, 'This is an acoustical hologram of the interior of their body.'" I don't say that.I just say, "My goodness isn't it strange that I seem to be able to see inside of the watermelon when I'm doing this.'"
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"There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards."
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"I'm just trying to keep my mind and my body active. The tough part about it is that physically I'm sort of limited."
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"Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb."
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"Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body."
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"I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up."
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"To fuel my body, I am relentless about never eating anything that isn't of this Earth."
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