#bodies

The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently, when the sperm unites with the egg, the fertilized egg will contain the double number of chromosomes. ↗

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

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In love there are two things - bodies and words. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

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The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

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Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies. ↗

— Peter Sotos

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I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies. ↗

— John Galliano

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For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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