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Letter "B" » bodily
«We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
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acknowledge, bodily, frame, indelible, lowliest, origin, stamp
«Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness»
Author: Edward Stanley
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bodily, exercise, illness, later, no Time, sooner, sooner or later, The Illness
«The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.»
Author: Sarah Bernhardt
(Actress)
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Truth
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absolute truth, bodily, proportions, theatre, The Absolute, The Theatre, Truth The
«We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
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Action
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beasts, bodily, class, concerned, seeking
«Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state»
Author: Thomas Mann
(Essayist, Novelist)
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Space,
Time
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bodily, engenders, forgetfulness, primitive, space like, surroundings, unattached
«The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I me»
«The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions /an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«Sexual love is undoubtedly one of the chief things in life, and the union of mental and bodily satisfaction in the enjoyment of love is one of its culminating peaks. Apart from a few queer fanatics, all the world knows this and conducts its life accordingly; science alone is too delicate to admit it.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
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accordingly, bodily, conducts, culminate, culminated, culminates, culminating, delicate, fanatics, peaks, queer, sexual love, The Conduct of Life, the union, undoubtedly
«The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris.»
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