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Lightness, and also some Light Bodies which are void of all Heaviness, and yet without _doubt_ they both are _Bodies_; in each of which there is something superadded to Corporeity, by which they are distinguish'd one from the other, and that makes the difference between them, otherwise they would be both one and the same thing, in every respect.
The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail
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Bodies, they have long since been taken notice of, and called by the Names of _Driness_ and _Moisture_ (though these two names are not comprehensive enough, being commonly used to signifie only the adhering or not adhering of _water_ to some other _solid Bodies_) of this kind we may observe that
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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Judith Butler certainly tried to do something like that in Bodies that Matter.
Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community 2008
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Very nice, very Swanbergian - speaking of which, a second online viewing tip: Season 2 of the unique and wonderful series Young American Bodies is on at Nerve.
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Regardless, as much as I admire LOL, for all the reasons I wrote about here, Young American Bodies is the one that would be on that list, too.
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The world we encounter in Our Bodies is so strongly politicized as to be nearly fabricated, and therefore worthless.
Latex Conquers All 2005
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The world we encounter in Our Bodies is so strongly politicized as to be nearly fabricated, and therefore worthless.
Latex Conquers All 2005
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But I Answer that the infiniteness or innumerability of Spirits, and Bodies is only to be understood in respect of the Creatures understanding, so that they cannot be numbred, nor the outward Extension of Body and Spirit (that may happen in them) be measured by the knowledge of any Creature.
The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy 1692
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Robbie Williams sang in a recent hit called Bodies, 'all we've ever wanted is to look good naked'.
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PRAY AND I DRIVE through a bleak landscape of fallow winter fields and strip malls in his blue Dodge Stratus as Drowning Pool's "Bodies" - a heavy metal song once
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Justine Sharrock 2010
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