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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
Inner
Strength
Religion
Peace
Spiritual
Light
Men
Ineffable
Brings

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Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
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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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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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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
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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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Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
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To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know
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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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Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
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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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The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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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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Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
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Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
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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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