"The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body."

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"The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body."

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"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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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."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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"What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct."

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