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Ian Gardner Author
Soul

"My Body, My Soul and I. My body is mine, but my body is not me, My body is an expression of my soul. My soul is mine, but my soul is not me, My soul is an expression of me - for I am."

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Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist
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"No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free."

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Zora Neale Hurston Novelist, Anthropologist
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"I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all."

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
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"The world is filled with unfortunate souls who didn't hear opportunity knock at the door, because they were down at the convenience stor buying lottery tickets."

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator
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"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world."

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator
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"One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees."

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Nikos Kazantzakis Novelist, Playwright
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"Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons."

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George Santayana Philosopher, Poet
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"Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects; it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul."

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Freddie Mercury Musician, Singer
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"It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived."

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
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"To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous."

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"By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself."

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