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Albert Schweitzer

"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth."

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"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth."

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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

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"No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's."

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"The Earth's health is the only standard that is all-encompassing enough to overcome the ethnic, cultural, religious, and national tensions that are rending the world asunder. Only the Earth can become the central axis around which which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans."

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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

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"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

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"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

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"Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth."

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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"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."
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"The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is."
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"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always."
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