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Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
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For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
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We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.
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Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.
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Constant Kindness can accomplish much.
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Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.
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Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.
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Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
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The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.
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Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
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I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.
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Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.
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The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
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Only through love can we obtain communion with God.
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Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.
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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.
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Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.
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Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.
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