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Body Quotes
"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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"Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body."
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"I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter."
Body,
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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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"Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores."
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"I'm very hard on myself because I know how good my body can look. Dorie has taught me to use less weight and more repetition so I don't become too muscular."
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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."
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"We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame."
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"In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades."
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"Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body."
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"To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body."
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"There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say."
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"Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best."
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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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"There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry."
23
"It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts."
23
"Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult."
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"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again."
20
"He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted."
19
"My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus."
Body,
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"Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face."
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