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"She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animating that pearless body must be unusual too? Why would nature make a vessel like that, if not to contain something still more valuable?"
"Now the most comprehensive conception of this new world is of one politically, socially and economically united To this end a small but increasing body of people in the world set their faces and seek to direct their lives."
"If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard."
"There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was."
"The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it."
"Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies."
"The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body."
"All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body."
"A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him."
"The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence."
"Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul."
"Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it."
"Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul."
"I feel like my endurance is actually better. Especially trying to get down to 140, I was experiencing body cramps."
"Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root."
"Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?"
"If you just work on your upper body, you're not going to be a full-range dancer or performer. You've got to work in all directions as much as you possibly can."
"Pain collected into deep pockets and I was aware of this painbut somehow I could not seem to feel it. It was like a body-deafness."
"Body-con dresses have never been something I've been into."
"Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself."
