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"Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures."
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"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."
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"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."
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"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."
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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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"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."
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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
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"The body has a mind of its own."
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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."
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"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."
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Explore more quotes by Asa Gray
"Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms."
Life
"The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them."
Life
"I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families."
Cause
"We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order."
Idea
"It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized."
Living
"Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three."
Animals
"Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?"
First
"Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win."
Judgment
"I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on."
People
"I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room."
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