"A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe."
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"In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation."
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"It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh"
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"Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one."
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"I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money."
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"I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom."
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"Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone."
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"The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh."
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"The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak."
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"Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?"
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""Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy."
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"God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?"
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"You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband."
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"A kinsman in trouble had to be saved, not blamed; anger against a brother was felt in the flesh, not in the bone."
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"it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones."
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"My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me."
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"He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being."
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"Fear arises from the weakness of the flesh over which the devil has power."
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"Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy."
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"William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell."
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