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You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE.

Albert Schweitzer

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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
Composer
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Philosopher
Physician
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Mont-Libre
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.
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I decided that I would make my life my argument.
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I must forgive without noise or fuss.
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Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
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Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.
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Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life.
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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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Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from judging any man's belief by reference to any standard of dogmatic correctness. Nowhere does he demand of his hearers that they shall sacrifice thinking to believing.
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Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe.
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If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
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A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
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When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
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Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.
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We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us
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It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
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Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.
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The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
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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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Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice
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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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