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Body Quote by John Donne

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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

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All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but…

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We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that…

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Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my…

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Various content To your eyes, ears, and tongue, and every part. If then your body go, what need you a heart?

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“Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ; That I may rise,…

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Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

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That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

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For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull…

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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and…

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All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by…

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Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.…

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The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,…

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,…

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When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone…

Alexander Gordon Smith

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I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests…

Richard Branson

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Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to…

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If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract…

Jennifer Siebel Newsom

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Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls.

Rosalind Wiseman

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By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological…

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Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body.

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America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the…

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I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

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