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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
Observation
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Lead
Truth
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Observations
Many
Reasoning
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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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Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
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Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
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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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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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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.
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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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There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.
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To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
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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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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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The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.
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Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
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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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Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.
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Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.
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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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Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
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