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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

~Alexis Carrel

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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.

~Alexis Carrel

Topics: Absolute Absolute Power Belief Clear Condition Desire High Human Human Condition Intellectual Logic Must Omnipotence Our Power Pride Renounce Rise Thinking Those Who

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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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All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

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Topics: Advice Certain Help Lives Moments Need Other Our Our Lives People Receive Take Us

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Gigantic sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane asylums and protect the public against gangsters and lunatics. Why do we preserve these useless and harmful beings? The abnormal prevent development of the normal.

~Alexis Carrel

Topics: Abnormal Against Asylum Beings Development Gangsters Gigantic Harmful Insane Lunatics Maintain Normal Now Preserve Prevent Prisons Protect Public Required Sums Useless Why

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Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

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Topics: Comforts Enemies Greatest Mankind Syphilis

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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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Topics: Act Any Extent Given Know Man Morally Responsible

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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

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Topics: Brings Inner Inner Strength Light Man Peace Religion Spiritual Strength

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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

~Alexis Carrel

Topics: Beauty Forms Gift Human Love Multiple Noblest

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In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Scientist

Born: June 28th, 1873

Died: November 5th, 1944

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