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"The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics."
"For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder."
"The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies....they tell us nothing about entities in their Being."
"The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple."
"One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is."
"The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still, His Kingdom is forever."
"The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental."
"It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body."
"I'm probably better known in the US as a YA writer, I have a huge body of adult horror and fantasy behind me."
"We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body."
"The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration."
"He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it."
"Your own body is a manifestation of God, and if you honor your body everything will change for you"
"When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it."
"and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies."
"She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance."
"The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul."
"For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought."
"The only way to be happy and be a more enjoyable person to be around is to embrace what you've got. Everyone has issues about their body, but I feel confident now. I'm healthy and happy."
"If, in fact, the GOP doesn't like any form of health care reform, what do we do with those 40 to 60 million uninsured?...When they show up in the emergency room, just shoot 'em! Kill them!...Do we have enough body bags? I don't know."
