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The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

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
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Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
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Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.
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Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
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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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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
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