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Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.
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Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.
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For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.
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We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
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Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.
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To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.
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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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Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.
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Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.
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Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'
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We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
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Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
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Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.
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I must forgive without noise or fuss.
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The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
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