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Action(s)
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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
-Alexis Carrel
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Advice
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All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
-Alexis Carrel, Reflections on Life
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Greatness & Great Things
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
-Alexis Carrel
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Intuition
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Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
-Alexis Carrel
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Personality
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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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Responsibility
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To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
-Alexis Carrel, Reflections on Life
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Revolution
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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.
-Alexis Carrel, Reflections on Life
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Self-help
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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
-Alexis Carrel
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Suffering
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
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Truth
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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
-Alexis Carrel
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Books by and about Alexis Carrel