“Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.”

—  Albert Schweitzer

The Problem of Peace (1954)

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French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosoph… 1875–1965

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