Line #7 Quotes/TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody


1	->''Maybe it was the hormones. Being trapped in a pseudo-adolescent body had probably made [Sunset Shimmer] "go native" for a while, start actually thinking like a short-sighted little dimwitted teenage girl. She'd probably been within a few months of spending all her free time at the mall and making duckfaces at her iPhone. She shuddered again.''
2	-->--'''Chapter 29''', ''Fanfic/TheGreatAlicornHunt''
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4	->''I don't want to rampage around like this, but I can't stop. Even my heart is becoming like a {{Kaiju}}'s...''
5	-->--'''Kuroe Akaishi''', ''Manga/KaijuGirlCaramelise''
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7	->The body is but a vessel for the soul, A puppet which bends to the soul's tyranny.
8	->And lo, the body is not eternal,
9	->For it must feed on the flesh of others,
10	->Lest it return to the dust whence it came.
11	->Therefore must the soul
12	->Deceive, despise, and murder men.
13	-->-'''A.J. Durai''', ''VideoGame/VagrantStory''
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15	->Others may speak of the sanctity of the mind. To those who know the true power of the blood, this is foolishness. The mind is no more sacred than the knee, the small toe, or the ear. It is man's organ of reasoning, nothing more. And true reasoning requires connection to the rhythm of the blood, the tireless pounding of life. Interrupt this, and even the mind is yours to attack.
16	-->-'''Scroll of Banastor''', ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''
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18	->'''Tobias:''' <Rachel... [[SanitySlippage I think I'm losing myself]].>
19	->'''Rachel:''' Wh-What... How do you mean?
20	->'''Tobias:''' <Today the hawk we freed... she was there. At the lake. I wanted to go with her. I felt like I belonged with her.>
21	->'''Rachel:''' You belong with us. You are a human being, Tobias.
22	->'''Tobias:''' <How can you be so sure?>
23	->'''Rachel:''' Because what counts is what is in your head and in your heart. A person isn't his body. A person isn't what's on the outside.
24	->'''Tobias:''' <Rachel... [[BecomingTheMask I don't even remember what I looked like]].>
25	-->--''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #3: The Encounter''
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27	->'''Spock:''' [[FountainOfYouth He's too young, Captain]]. Far younger than he was when he entered Starfleet. Not only has he regressed beyond the point of knowing how to operate ''Enterprise'' instrumentation, his youthful mind is beginning to doubt its far larger store of memories. Look at Lieutenant Uhura. They are turning into children, Captain.
28	->'''Kirk:''' But they can't just lose all their acquired knowledge, Mr Spock. Our physical makeup isn't the same as [[MerlinSickness the Arretians]].
29	->'''Spock:''' I suspect the knowledge is still there, Captain, locked away deep within their minds. But the mechanism for retrieving such information is degenerating as they grow younger.
30	-->--''[[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS2E6TheCounterClockIncident Star Trek]]: [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek_Log_7 Log 7]]''
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32	->Quentin's new goose-brain, it emerged, was not much given to reflection. His senses now tracked only a handful of key stimuli, but it tracked those very, very closely. This body was made for either sitting or flying, not much else, and as it happened Quentin was in a mood to fly. In fact, he felt like flying more than he had ever felt like doing everything in his entire life. With no conscious thought or apparent effort, he and his classmates fell into the classic ragged V formation, with a Fourth Year named Georgia at the apex.
33	-->--''Literature/TheMagicians''
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35	->'''Blizzard:''' I think the change has affected more than just our physical bodies. I think differently in some things now.
36	->'''Static:''' Like what?
37	->'''Blizzard:''' I don't know.
38	-->--''Fanfic/ThePortal''
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