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The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.

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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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Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
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When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
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...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.
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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
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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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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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The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.
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Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
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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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Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
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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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