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Letter "B" » bodily
«I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions»
«Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
| Keywords:
annihilation, bodily, celebration, celebrations, defined, female, fulfill, identity, masculinity, mythic, pornography, redeem, romantic, romantic love, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing, submit, The Celebration, The Sacrifice, willingness
«Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.»
Author: Bruce Lee
(Actor)
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Life,
Peace,
Truth,
Wisdom
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avenues, Avenue of, bodily, closing, discard, discarding, perception, self awareness, The Avenue
«I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civilized life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?''»
Author: William Allingham
(Man of letter, Poet)
| Keywords:
bodily, energies, infuse, infused, infuses, in large quantities, mental energy, sense of purpose, that much
«I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.»
«People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.»
«One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
bodily, glance, identity, symbol, transcends
«I sincerely. believe. in the general existence of moral instinct. I think it the brightest gem with which the human character is studded, and the want of it as more degrading than the most hideous of the bodily deformities.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
bodily, brightest, deformities, deformity, degrading, gem, hideous, moral character, sincerely, stud, studded, studs, The General
«Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
bodily, circle, consciousness, finger, general, get into, intellectually, in general, morally, moving, organism, organisms, physically, potential, resources, restrict, restricted, restricting, restricts, Small circle, using
«I have mental joys and mental health,Mental friends and mental wealth,I've a wife that I love and that loves me;I've all but riches bodily.»
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