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Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

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
Intelligence
Whose
Almost
Quality
Persons
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Useless

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