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If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.
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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Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.
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Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.
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Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
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Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
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I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.
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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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Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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