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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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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
Entirely
Search
Dare
Indeed
Adventure
Personal
Audacious
Undertaking
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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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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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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When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
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In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
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Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
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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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The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
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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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Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
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The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.
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Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
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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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One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.
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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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Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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