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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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Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.
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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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Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
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Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
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Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.
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It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.
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Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.
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From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
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The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.
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Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.
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Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
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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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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
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It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
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We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.
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What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
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Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
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When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.
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A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
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