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This purpose will naturally have some relation to the maintenance, or preservation, of the cell group which we call the body.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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Soul is the counterpart within the sphere of the attribute of thought of that particular mode of the attribute of extension which we call the body.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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The Marvelous Human Machine which we call the body.
Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897
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The real leadership and boundaries that the ego will ultimately respect and obey can only come from within- from our Spirit- from the true captain of our physical ships we call our body.
The Nature of Human Nature- Ending the War Within by John Groberg William Harryman 2009
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Find out if you've got a chance in hell of transforming that lump you call a body.
Speedlinking 11/27/07 William Harryman 2007
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He may deprive himself of the instrument that was given to him for use in the physical world; he cannot escape from the duties that he should have fulfilled when he had the means of doing so in the use of this instrument we call the body.
The Life Radiant Lilian Whiting
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Anglicans, or Greeks, was to pray to God for the unity of the baptized body.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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God is not going to let everything end for us just because the mortal life quits the shell we call the body.
A Minstrel in France Harry Lauder 1910
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But the real you that I must know is hidden behind the physical mask that we call the body.
The Mind and Its Education George Herbert Betts 1901
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Man is not made like God in his physical properties, nor those delineations of his material embodiment that we call the body.
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898
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