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Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.
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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Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.
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I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.
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My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat and also for speaking out against it. This is what I do myself. And in this way many a one becomes aware of a problem that was put forward so late.
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At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
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A good example has twice the value of good advice
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