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Theodore Parker Transcendentalist, Minister
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"The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand."

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Thomas Adams Author, Historian
Body

"Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body."

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Rebecca West Novelist, Journalist
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"Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie."

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"I don't feel the obligation to be a specific weight. I don't feel like I have to fit into a body that's not my body. I have the body I have and I try to maintain it."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican."

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Tracy Anderson Fitness Trainer, Entrepreneur
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"I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body."

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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
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"The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received."

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Rene Marie Singer
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"You have to be willing to look a certain way, and hold your body a certain way, until you get to where you want to go - I'm talking about musically, now."

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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
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"The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body."

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