"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."
-Albert Schweitzer
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"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.“
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"One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history."
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"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always."
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"Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true."
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"Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too."
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