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Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.

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
Energy
Form
Self
Like
Radium
Generating
Luminous
Prayer

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