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"For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time."
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"He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge."
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"She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn't be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection to her heart."
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"I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00."
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"Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno."
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"Young bones groan And the rocks below say, "Throw your white body down!" But I'm going to meet the one I love At last"
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"Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable."
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"The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the body wants, what the air wants, what time wants."
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"The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references."
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"First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge."
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"If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food-then only will the mind be strong."
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"Thirst after body is the great bane of human life."
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"The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal."
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"All motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana."
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"When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage."
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"There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar is far higher than the worship of any dead symbols."
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"We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego."
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"This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another."
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"The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die."
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