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Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
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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Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
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Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.
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You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
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Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.
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Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.
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We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
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Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
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Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.
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An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.
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Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.
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