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Let your life be your argument.

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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I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.
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The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.
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Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
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The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
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Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.
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No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.
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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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Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
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I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can.
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I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or catches it successfully, only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, i.e., from some other person.
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In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.
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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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It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.
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O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.
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A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him.
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Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.
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Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
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