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Edvard Munch
"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
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Saint Teresa of Avila
"Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."
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Hassan Nasrallah
"Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist."
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Lasse Hallstrom
"It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body."
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Christian Lous Lange
"Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual."
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Haile Gebrselassie
"I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first."
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Saadi
"When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body."
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David Baltimore
"When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating."
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Deborah Bull
"Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words."
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David Cronenberg
"For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do."
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Emanuel Swedenborg
"Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body."
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Emma Goldman
"To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock."
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M. H. Abrams
"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
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Roberto Clemente
"If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body."
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John Hersey
"The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels."
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B. R. Ambedkar
"Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered."
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Carmen Miranda
"Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body."
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Mahalia Jackson
"My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me."
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Naomi Judd
"Your body hears everything your mind says."
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Gene Tunney
"A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body."
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Harold Kushner
"When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel."
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Jim Goad
"Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body."
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Joanna Lumley
"I'm aware of my body."
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George H. Mead
"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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Stan Getz
"The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body."
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Virginia Woolf
"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."
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Ken Norton
"Hitting Ali in the body or on the arms was like hitting a piece of cement."
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Joely Fisher
"I just believe that whatever you put into your system you're going to see on your face and your body."
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"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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Edward Carpenter
"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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Arthur Schopenhauer
"The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body."
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Phil McGraw
"You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you."
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Ornette Coleman
"All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all."
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Michael Jordan
"My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline."
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J. F. C. Fuller
"Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body."
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Ezra Stiles
"The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right."
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Julia Barr
"No one is ever really dead unless we find the body."
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Grenville Kleiser
"Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body."
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Roy H. Williams
"A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known."
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Bruce Cockburn
"I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album."
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Jane Austen
"Respect for right conduct is felt by every body."
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Alex Chiu
"Souls are designed to fit inside a body."
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Carl Levin
"Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor."
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Arthur Eddington
"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't."
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Claire Bloom
"My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body."
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Trish Stratus
"As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling."
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Joshua Chamberlain
"Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left."
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental."
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