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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
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Suffering
Sculptor
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Men
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Sculptors
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Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.
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Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.
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When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
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Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
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In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
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Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.
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It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.
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Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.
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The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.
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Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
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Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
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Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
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Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.
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The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.
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The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.
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The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.
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Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
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If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.
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Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing.
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