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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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If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.
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The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.
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The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.
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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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Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
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I must forgive without noise or fuss.
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Do something good and someone might imitate it.
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Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.
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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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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
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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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One person can and does make a difference.
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We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.
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In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.
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We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us
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I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
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Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him everything merely leads to him.
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