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Quote by Albert Schweitzer
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on

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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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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In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. – Albert Schweitzer

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Friendship
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Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? – Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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Im really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern. – Emma Watson

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Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. – African Proverb

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Without philosophy, history seems to me to be deaf and dumb. – Ferdinand Baur, Symbolik und Mythologic

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