"Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes."

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"Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes."

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"Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece."

Bill Griffith, American Cartoonist

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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."

Michael Polanyi, Hungarian Scientist

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"Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left."

Joshua Chamberlain, American Soldier

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"I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect."

Susan Griffin, American Writer

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"As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle."

Nick Lowe, English Musician

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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!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Modesty is the conscience of the body."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"I don't have a problem with my body. I'm not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don't think there's any way round, I'm absolutely fine."

Keira Knightley, English Actress

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"There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry."

Robert Hass, American Poet

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"Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening."

Herbert Gold, American Author

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"Physics is experience, arranged in economical order."

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"Personally, people know themselves very poorly."

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"Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance."

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"Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself."

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"The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life."

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"A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough."

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"If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us."

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"The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies."

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"When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories."

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"The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless."

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