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“We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul's impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, 'Early in the morning I destroyed all the wicked of the earth, that I might cut off all evil-doers from the city of the Lord' (Ps. 101:8) - that is, the passions of the body and the soul's godless thoughts.”

Soul Body Might Earth Christian Passion Evil Cities Lord Morning Cutting Destroyed Wicked Orthodox Doers Impassioned Evil Doers

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My Second City (improvisation) background comes in very handy for accent and body posture.”

Character Shows Body Cities Materials Conversation Backgrounds Compelling Accents Adore Improvisation Posture One Woman Handy Second City

Author:Valerie Harper

“In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.”

Body Age Cities Darkness Brother Huge Clouds Old Age Dust Frail Overtaking

Author:Guru Gobind Singh

“Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man towards the high destiny we hear so much of. I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. If the death exhalations that brood the broad towns in which we so fondly compact ourselves were made visible, we should flee as from a plague. All are more or less sick; there is not a perfectly sane man in San Francisco.”

Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

“The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.”

Men Needs Mind Children Body Desire Goal President Community Cities Quality Beauty Talent Demand Concerned Hunger Presidential Goods Quantity Commerce Great Society

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.”

Giving Mind Body Space Views Race Cities Air Birth Breathing Mind And Body Confined Degenerates Hurtful Stagnant Metropolis Breathing Space

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“We read our mail and counted up our missions In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about in school Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among The people we had killed and never seen. When we lasted long enough they gave us medals; When we died they said, "Our casualties were low." They said, "Here are the maps"; we burned the cities.”

People Long Said Enough Body School Girl Cities Our Lives Lows Died Lays Missions Maps Mail Burned They Said Medal Casualties Bombers

Author:Randall Jarrell

“We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadium; they are a host of chemical machines who swallow the product of chemical factories, aspirin, preservatives, stimulant, relaxant, and breathe out their chemical wastes into a polluted air. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.”

Source: Cannibals and Christians

“Ye who amid this feverish world would wear A body free of pain, of cares a mind, Fly the rank city, shun its turbid air; Breathe not the chaos of eternal smoke And volatile corruption, from the dead, The dying, sickening, and the living world Exhal'd, to sully heaven's transparent dome With dim mortality.”

World Mind Body Care Pain Heaven Cities Air Dying Eternal Chaos Corruption Breathe Smoke Mortality Transparent Domes

Book:The Poems of Armstrong and Johnson

Source: The Poems of Armstrong and Johnson

“I am pregnant with song. My body aches but do not betray me. I will sing songs and hide them away. I will tear them into bits and throw them in the street. The streets of my city are full of dark holes. I will hide my songs in the holes of the streets.”

Body Song Bits Dark Cities Streets Tears Holes Betray Pregnant Ache

Book:Mid-American Chants

Source: Mid-American Chants

“The wisdom of God exceeds that of the wisest man, more than his wisdom exceeds that of a child. If a child were to conjecture how an army is to be formed in the day of battle--how a city is to be fortified, or a state governed--what chance has he to guess right? As little chance has the wisest man when he pretends to conjecture how the planets move in their courses, how the sea ebbs and flows, and how our minds act upon our bodies.”

Ifs Men Mind Children Littles States Body Moving Courses Chance Cities Sea Planets Battle Flow Army Exceed Wisest Conjecture Ebb And Flow Wisest Man

Book:Philosophical works

Source: Philosophical works

“the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.”

Way Doe Helping Body Beautiful Remember Cities Painting Eating Drawing Best Way Flavor Penetrate Beautiful City Beautiful Paintings

Author:Anais Nin

“If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the city. That is the length of time it takes this pollution to invade the body, after which it is there forever.”

Ifs Persons Body Three Found Cities Forever Week Length Pollution Found Dead

Author:Liv Ullmann