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The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.

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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Mont-Libre
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.
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Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
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We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.
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The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
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Kindness works simply and perseveringly it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.
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If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.
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Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.
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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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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
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If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.
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Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.
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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
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For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.
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The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
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Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
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You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.
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Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.
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Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.
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