"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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"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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"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."
-Albert Schweitzer
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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."
-Albert Schweitzer
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"I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan."
-Bill Berry
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"In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship."
-Tony Garza
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"Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets."
-Eleanor Robson Belmont
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"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both."
-Fawn M. Brodie
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"The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time."
-Galina Vishnevskaya
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"To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time."
-Cornelia Otis Skinner
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