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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.
Alexis Carrel
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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
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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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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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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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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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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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Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
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All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
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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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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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Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
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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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Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.
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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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Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
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...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.
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Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
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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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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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