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Alexis Carrel

"Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself."

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"Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself."

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"The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum."
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"In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable."
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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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"A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth."
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"Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace."
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"Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive."
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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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