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Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.

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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
Positive
Geysers
Motivational
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Life
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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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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 secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.
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The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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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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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 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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When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
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The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life can go on forever.
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Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
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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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Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.
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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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Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.
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Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
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Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
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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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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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