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...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.

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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
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Physiologist
Sociologist
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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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Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
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Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
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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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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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Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.
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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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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
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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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Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless, and often harmful, have become a necessity for civilized men.
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Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
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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 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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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 search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.
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