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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
Nature
Compartments
Inmost
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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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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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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
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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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As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.
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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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Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.
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Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing.
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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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In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
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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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