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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
Biologist
Physiologist
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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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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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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
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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 modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.
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The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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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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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 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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Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
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Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
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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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To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
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When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
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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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Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
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