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At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.

Albert Schweitzer

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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
Composer
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Music Historian
Musicologist
Organist
Philosopher
Physician
Physician Writer
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University Teacher
Mont-Libre
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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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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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
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There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.
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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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From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
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We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
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I do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others.
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Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him everything merely leads to him.
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Preservation of life is the only true joy.
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Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
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In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'
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Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.
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We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.
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