I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to…

Albert Schweitzer
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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. ✨ Albert Schweitzer (1949). Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography, New York : H. Holt
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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. ✨ Albert Schweitzer (1949). Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography, New York : H. Holt

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