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title: "5 Body Rhythms Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/a-less-brainy-culture-would-learn-to-synchronise-its-body-rhythms/)

[Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/)

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> [Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karlheinz-stockhausen/repetition-is-based-on-body-rhythms-so-we-identify-with-the-heartbeat/)

[Karlheinz Stockhausen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karlheinz-stockhausen/)

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> [“A particularly significant example of brain against body, or measures against matter, is urban man’s total slavery to clocks. A clock is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-wilson-watts/a-particularly-significant-example-of-brain-against-body-or-measures/)

[Alan Wilson Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-wilson-watts/)

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> [Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muriel-rukeyser/punctuation-is-biological-it-is-the-physical-indication-of-the-body/)

[Muriel Rukeyser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muriel-rukeyser/)

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> [“A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dag-hammarskj-ld/a-heart-pulsating-in-harmony-with-the-circulation-of-sap-and-the-flow/)

[Dag Hammarskjöld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dag-hammarskj-ld/)

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