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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
Search
Dare
Indeed
Adventure
Personal
Audacious
Undertaking
Undertakings
Entirely

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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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Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
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Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
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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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To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know
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One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.
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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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Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
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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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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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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 quality of life is more important than life itself.
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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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When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
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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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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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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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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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To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
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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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