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I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Albert Schweitzer

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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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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
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When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts.
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We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
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All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
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I must forgive without noise or fuss.
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One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
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At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.
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Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
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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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Aim for service and success will follow!
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