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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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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
Library
Lecture
Rooms
Fog
Dangerous
Separates
Reality
Libraries
Long
Lectures
Like
Laboratory
Shut
Atmosphere
Laboratories

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