"Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health."
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"The weakest believer is a member of Christ as well as the strongest; and the weakest member of the body mystically shall not perish. Christ will cut off rotten members, but not weak members."
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"When people say "the body," frequently they mean the literal body, the physical body."
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"I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place of the female body."
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"I don't know where to place my body. Everyone notices that about me. I'm very restless."
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"In that way, I don't understand myself. It might have to do with my own conflicts, where to place my body as a child, which I have carried over to now. In this way I'm constantly dislocated."
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"The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme."
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"The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act."
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"I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body."
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"From the moment I told her about my dad, it was as if her whole body sighed in relief. As if someone else’s misery comforted her, made her feel as if she wasn’t alone."
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"The body is the instrument of our hold on the world."
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"Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself."
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"The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no!"
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"I really don't do anything to break myself. As far as the damages to my body, I'm not a drinker. I let the gin and juice alone."
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"I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work."
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"When you are infinitely indebted for your body, for Knowledge, for things you have received, and for your own life, then you bask in the abundance of the Creator"
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"Sickness is not just in the body, it could be in the mind, it could be in your intellect; it could be in the inhibitions of your intellect"
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"To free our body from fear what we need is the glorious experience of the soul."
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"Hope pulls the heart of tomorrow into the body of today."
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"You have to look in the mirror and see that what you're wearing looks good on the body you have now. Wearing a larger size is just wearing a larger size."
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