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When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far as I am concerned, the most rank form of arrogance . . . The faith-healer Bosworth once said that faith makes God act. If you follow that line of reasoning God is in His heaven, but Bosworth rules the world!

C. Everett Koop

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C. Everett Koop
Age: 96 †
Born: 1916
Born: October 14
Died: 2013
Died: February 25
Former United States Surgeon General
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