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To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.
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I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
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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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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
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What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
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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.
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We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy for animals. We are also compelled to help them and spare them suffering.
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World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.
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Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.
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For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.
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Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.
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If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.
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Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.
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Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.
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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 only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
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Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
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Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
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Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.
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The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
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