"I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body"
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"Ideas come from everything"
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"Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?"
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"I drink to separate my body from my soul."
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"That face. That body. And you know he’s packing. Look at the angle on that dangle."
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"For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't."
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"To have a true investment, there must be a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that can be demonstrated by figures, by persuasive reasoning, and by reference to a body of actual experience."
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"Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain."
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"Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body."
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"Freeing the body inevitably leads to freeing the heart."
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"Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?"
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"We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures."
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"Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further."
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"The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention."
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"There is one and the same soul in many bodies."
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"I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain."
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"It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body."
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"There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it."
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"Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth."
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"To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow."
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