"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
-Albert Schweitzer
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"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.“
-Albert Schweitzer
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"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
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"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
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"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."
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"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
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"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me."
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