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The quality of life is more important than life itself.

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
Life
Quality
Important

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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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When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
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The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.
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One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.
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Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
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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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The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.
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