"The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist."
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"The subtle dance of the body joins us to the world."
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"It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by work til it was coarse in the grain like an overripe turnip, could be beautiful. But is was so, and after all, he thought, why not?"
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"I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth."
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"I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead.... Tis well."
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"When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered."
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"You wouldn't run a marathon the day before you run a marathon, you need to leave some sort of surprise for your body."
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"My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result."
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"The mind is the greatest of all human forces. Control the mind and you control the body."
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"This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it."
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"There was no direct way to prevent the Boston murders. There are some easy ways to prevent likely future ones: by not inciting them. That's also true of another case of a suspect murdered, his body disposed of without autopsy, when he could easily have been apprehended and brought to trial: Osama bin Laden."
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"Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic."
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"My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task."
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"Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit."
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"The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things."
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"Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye."
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"A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow."
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"The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything."
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"The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow."
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"Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the body of the person pointing; and if these things are distant, the hand of the painter should be more extended and the face turned toward the person to whom he is addressing the demonstration."
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