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" Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life. "

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. "

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" At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. "

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" By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive. "

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" A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives. "

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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. "

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" Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid. "

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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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" Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. "

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" I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. "

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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. "

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