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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

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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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Greater
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
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Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
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All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
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Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
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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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Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
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One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.
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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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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
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The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life can go on forever.
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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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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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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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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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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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The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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