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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

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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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Truth
Littles
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Reasoning
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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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Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
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Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
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As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.
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Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.
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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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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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Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
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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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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
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The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.
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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
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There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.
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More than half of all great remedies known to medical history have come from empiricists...'irregulars'...of no or little scientific training. There is no reason to believe that conditions have essentially changed.
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All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
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Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless, and often harmful, have become a necessity for civilized men.
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
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