"Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor."

Body, Commonsense, Reason

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"Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor."

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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."

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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

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"A feeble body weakens the mind."

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"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind."

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"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."

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"The body is not a reliable friend."

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