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“I suppose the body to be nothing but a statue or machine made of earth, which God forms with the explicit intention of making it as much as possible like us.”

— René Descartes

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Descartes, René. (n.d.). Wikiquote: René Descartes. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/René_Descartes

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