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...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.

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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
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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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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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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 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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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.
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Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. 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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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
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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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There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.
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Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.
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Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
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It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.
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Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
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To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know
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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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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
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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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