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"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
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"My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated."
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"Treat your body good, because your body is your boat, it is your horse, it is your car, your wings, your every possible vehicle to take you to every possible place!"
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"Modesty is the conscience of the body."
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"I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions."
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"Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures."
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"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."
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"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."
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"The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back."
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"The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other."
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"One doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine."
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"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
Age


"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
Philosophy


"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
Humanity


"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."
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"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect."
People


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


"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
Ability


"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."
Fun


"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading."
Reading


"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."
Survival
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