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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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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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Animal protection is education to the humanity.
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The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?
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Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.
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Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.
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It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.
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To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
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Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more on it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through experiences of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.
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Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.
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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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We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.
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The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.
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The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.
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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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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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Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
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Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.
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That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.
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As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
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Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
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