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Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.

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I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people call soul and others, personality... The nonphysical part cannot die and cannot decay because it's not physical.
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