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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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Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
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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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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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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
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Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
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Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
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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 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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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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