The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give eve…

Albert Schweitzer
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The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own. ✨ Albert Schweitzer (2015). The Light Within Us, p.31, Open Road Media
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