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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
Truth
Littles
Little
Observations
Many
Reasoning
Much
Error
Observation
Errors
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Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
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Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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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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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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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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When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
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In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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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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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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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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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.
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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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The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.
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Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.
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The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
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The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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