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“Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.”

Men Doe Whole Body Young Process Members Authority Scientist Lays Profession Young Man

Author:Michael Polanyi

“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

“The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator might be tempted to say "Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles."”

People Ifs Way May Littles Country Facts Body Might Care Principles Findings Evidence Consequence Let Me Lays Enormous Treated I Care Tempted Administrative Administrators

Author:Charles Evans Hughes

“Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices.”

Body Eye Remember Desire Voice Bed Lays Glowing Trembling

Book:Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy

Source: Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy

“Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.”

Body Loses Lays Passing Passings Leisure Calmness Retribution Deliberation Provocation

Book:Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: Part III. ... By Jeremy Collier, M.A.

Source: Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: Part III. ... By Jeremy Collier, M.A.

“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.”

Men World Humans Done Body Hands Form Humanity Heaven Lays Flesh Revelations Temples Reverence Human Body Bending

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

“Death was a beginning and not an end; it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested; the first fruits of them that slept.”

Firsts Soul Ends Body Spirit Sleep Morning Lays Tired Fruit

Book:The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: A poor wise man

Source: The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: A poor wise man