"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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"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.“
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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."
-Albert Schweitzer
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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."
-Albert Schweitzer
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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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"I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength."
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"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
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"Strength lies not in defence but in attack."
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"The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people."
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"Strength is a matter of the made-up mind."
-John Beecher
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