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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
Religion
Peace
Spiritual
Light
Men
Ineffable
Brings
Inner
Strength

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The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationship.
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...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.
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Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.
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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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Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
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When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
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Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
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The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.
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In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.
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Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing.
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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.
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Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
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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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The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
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Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
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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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If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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