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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
Alexis Carrel
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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
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Sociologist
Surgeon
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
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The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.
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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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Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
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