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The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pa

The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts. – Samuel Butler, Notebooks

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Your body is a temple but only if you treat it as one. – Terri Guillemets

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Most of us have become deaf to our own bodies, which is why we are out of tune. – Terri Guillemets

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Sometimes your body is smarter than you are. – Author Unknown

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How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? – Katherine Mansfield, Bliss and Other Stories

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