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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

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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."

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"Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training."

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"I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body."

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"Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower."

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"Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures."

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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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"Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores."

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Amber Hurdle

"To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body."

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"It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages."

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"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one."
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"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."
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"I ask: which of the two, civil or natural life, is more likely to become insufferable to those who live it? We see about us practically no people who do not complain about their existence; many even deprive themselves of it to the extent they are able, and the combination of divine and human laws is hardly enough to stop this disorder."
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"Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity."
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