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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
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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All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.
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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
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Preservation of life is the only true joy.
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The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
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I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.
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A good example has twice the value of good advice
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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
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Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
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The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.
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The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?
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Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from judging any man's belief by reference to any standard of dogmatic correctness. Nowhere does he demand of his hearers that they shall sacrifice thinking to believing.
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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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The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.
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It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
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