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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which...

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He’s like a hero come back from thewar, a poor maimed bastard living out the reality of his dreams.W...

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Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wound...

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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Every secret of the body was rendered up--bone risen through flesh, sacrilegious glimpses of an inte...

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Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surel...

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J. K. RowlingThe Casual Vacancy

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up ...

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That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit.

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natu...

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If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it'...

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God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were de...

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She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart an...

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But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal o...

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Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to ...

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Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

Love's mysteries in souls do grow,But yet the body is his book.

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John DonneThe Complete English Poems

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dy...

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Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body p...

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Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.

Coming out of sleep, I had the advantage of two worlds, the layered firmament of dream and the tempo...

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The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns...

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To explain this a little further: Only the soul and the body are the natural constituent parts of me...

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John WesleyHow To Pray: The Best of John Wesley on Prayer

I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as...

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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of wa...

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You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you p...

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Appearing nude on film was not easy when I was twenty-six in Body Heat; it was even harder when I wa...

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Kathleen TurnerSend Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life

That there was no God was a given, as far as Hope was concerned, and being nice to people and making...

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Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design...

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Believing himself to be unseen by other bathers, he gave himself up to being alone with his body. He...

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I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than o...

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Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it u...

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A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles....

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the cou...

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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiri...

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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed...

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Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortre...

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It is illness that makes us recognize that we do not live in isolation but are chained to a being fr...

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Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part. Throw away thy boo...

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After having imposed itself on us like the egomaniac it is, clamouring about its own needs, foisting...

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Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I c...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was jus...

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If someone wants to suck your toes, those toes should be worth sucking.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craf...

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Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower?

Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it's caught in the fabric of the world, and its...

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The body is our general medium for having a world.

The flesh is at the heart of the world.

I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by...

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We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker...

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She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its ...

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The old duality of body and soul has become shrouded in scientific terminology, and we can laugh at ...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

The desire for sexual expression is inborn and natural. The desire cannot, and should not be submerg...

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When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal ...

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I drink to separate my body from my soul.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be re...

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Oscar WildeComplete Works of Oscar Wilde

Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty...

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my beauty, flower by flower, star by star,wave by wave, love, I have counted your body.

Feel body as luxury-- as a bird feels when shooting through the air, and as a child does always -- i...

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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered ...

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My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socializati...

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Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your bod...

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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one a...

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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way...

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Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excelle...

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PlatoThe Republic

The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and re...

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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer s...

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My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.

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Raquel WelchRaquel: Beyond the Cleavage

So, if I give any credit, besides giving all credit to God, for being totally healthy, it's just my ...

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…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness t...

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Richard MathesonWhat Dreams May Come

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbon...

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... Man is not truly one, but truly two... even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only...

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.

I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they...

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I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, tryin...

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we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., ...

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Sigmund FreudCivilization and Its Discontents

Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really in...

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Simone WeilGravity and Grace

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily deva...

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Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is h...

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This is a case without a body.The body does not come into it at all.

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Sylvia PlathAriel: The Restored Edition

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame its parts their function...

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Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroun...

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