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"Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness."
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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 is not a reliable friend."
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"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body."
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"I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?"
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"Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much."
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"I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate."
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"In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long."
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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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"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."
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"The body has a mind of its own."
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"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."
Happiness
"A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance."
Civilization
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
Work
"To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible."
Man
"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."
God
"Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men."
Man
"We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men."
Man
"Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."
Will
"Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart."
Love
"Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it."
Love
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