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Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don't you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.
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function
human-body
humans
ornamentation
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Ayn Rand |
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Doctors don't seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.
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human-body
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Joe Haldeman |
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Of all the great world religions, Christianity should value the body most. After all, it taught that God had in some sense taken a human body and used it to redeem the world; everything about the physical should have been sacred and sacramental. But that had not happened. instead, the churches had found it almost impossible to integrate the sexual with the divine and had developed a Platonic aversion to the body - particularly the bodies of women.
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human-body
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Karen Armstrong |
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e781403
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For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.
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brother-sister-relationships
female
five
genitals
growing-up
human
human-body
mirror
puberty
sexuality
sister
teenage-girl
teenager
woman
womanhood
wonderful
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
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She looked into the room. So many machines and wires and tubes - a reminder that the human body was an incredible miracle, its countless autonomic functions a gift when they were operating as intended, and a cumbersome nightmare to have to approximate when they were not.
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health
hospital
human-body
medical-care
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J.R. Ward |