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"He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Respect for right conduct is felt by every body."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"It is the mind that makes the body."

Sojourner Truth, American Activist

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"Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres."

John Dryden, English Poet

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"Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash."

Jerry Seinfeld, American Comedian

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"I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick, t like my body."

Alicia Keys, American Musician

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"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body."

Jodie Foster, American Actress

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"The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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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."

Edward Carpenter, English Activist

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"Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired."

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