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“There is a system and a flow and an organization to the structure of the universe. Just like there's a system and a flow and an organization to the human body, to atomic structures, to the elements.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Without challenges, the human body will soften. We thrive when we push our boundaries, reach goals, and blast personal records. We perform better, we look better, and we feel alive.”

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Author:Dan John

“Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Body Young Song Too Much Written Fascinated Human Body Paranoid Morbid Hypochondriac

Author:Ellie Goulding

“The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea that violence is a legitimate part of sexuality.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.”

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Book:The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose

Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose

“Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.”

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Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.”

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Book:Blood Memory

Source: Blood Memory

“Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.”

Humans Heart Kind Body Life Is Speak Instruments Dance Human Body Fever Graphs

Author:Martha Graham

“Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.”

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Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.”

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Author:Catherine the Great

“There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.”

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Book:Novalis and the poets of pessimism: with an English translation by James Thomson (

Source: Novalis and the poets of pessimism: with an English translation by James Thomson (

“We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!”

Humans Body Hands Heaven Lays Human Body

Author:Novalis

“Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body.”

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Author:Virginia Graham

“Survival is as much a matter of grace as fight. The expression, 'grace under pressure' implies the attainment of equanimity and equilibrium. The fundamental durability of the human body surprises us because the pain can be so intense - yet pain is often transient and hides the tremendous effforts the body is engaged in to heal itself.”

Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

“To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.”

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Book:Islands, the universe, home

Source: Islands, the universe, home

“It is the grandeur of Christ's character which constitutes the chief power of His ministry, not His miracles or teachings apart from His character. The greatest triumph of the Gospel is Christ Himself--a human body become the organ of the Divine nature, and revealing, under the conditions of an earthly life, the glory of God.”

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Author:Horace Bushnell

“No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.”

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Author:Olive Schreiner

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