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Quote by Albert Schweitzer
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. – Albert Schweitzer

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Let me give you one definition of ethics: It is good to maintain life and to further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound, universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion. – Albert Schweitzer

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Ethics
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Albert Schweitzer
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Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive. – Albert Schweitzer

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Reverence
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Albert Schweitzer
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. – Henry Ward Beecher

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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. – Albert Einstein

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Life

Maybe you dont like your job, maybe you didnt get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, theres no escape, theres no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. – Ani DiFranco

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Life

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other peoples lives. – Oprah Winfrey

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Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery. – Grace Kelly

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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, “Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.” – Robert Penn Warren, “The Themes of Robert Frost,” Hopwood Lecture, 1947

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What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion? – Jim Murray, Los Angeles Times

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The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people – that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. – James Thurber

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