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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.

Alexis Carrel

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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
Quantity
Intensity
Increase
Personality
Habit
Virtue
Strengthens
Quality
Builds
Life
Increases

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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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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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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
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One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.
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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life can go on forever.
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The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.
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The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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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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The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.
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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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Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
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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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Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
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Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
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