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There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
Compartments
Inmost
Art
Nature

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It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.
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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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Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.
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The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationship.
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In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.
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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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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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Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
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Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
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Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
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Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
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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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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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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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All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
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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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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 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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