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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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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
Prayer
Powerful
Spiritual
Lives
Sustaining
Energy
Generate
Form
Supplies
Power
Daily
Flow

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