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I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

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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I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs as soon as ever a sufficient number of people with purity of heart, with strength, and with perseverance think and live out the thoughts of love and truth, of meekness and peaceableness.
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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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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
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There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.
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Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
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Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.
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I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
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Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.
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Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
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Preservation of life is the only true joy.
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A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.
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In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.
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Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
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Constant Kindness can accomplish much.
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What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
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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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That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.
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The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life
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Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
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