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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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We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privelege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself. – Albert Schweitzer

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Torture
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Albert Schweitzer
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Lifes but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. – William Shakespeare

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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. – Oscar Wilde

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Life

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. – Danny Kaye

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Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. – Ashleigh Brilliant

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Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do. – Joseph Wood Krutch

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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. – Mark Twain, letter to Joe Goodman, April 1891

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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even… without any hope of doing it well. – Oliver Herford

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We wont have a society if we destroy the environment. – Margaret Mead

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