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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.

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
Personality
Habit
Virtue
Strengthens
Quality
Builds
Life
Increases
Quantity
Intensity
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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
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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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When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
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There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.
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