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• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Remembrance, Silence, Holocaust

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.141, Macmillan

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• I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Internet Access, People, Email

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• Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Peace, War, Military

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.202, University of Georgia Press

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• Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life

  Caprice Crane

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• Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions.

  Dorothea Lange

  Your Side, Perception, Sides

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• One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander's last meal.

  Stephen King

  Blood, Brain, Wish

  "Stephen King: why the US must introduce limited gun controls" by Stephen King, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2013.

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• To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.

  Mark Steyn

  Fate, Government

  "Don't wait for government protection". www.jewishworldreview.com. September 17, 2003.

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• In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering about during an amputation. Both men contracted an infection and died, as did the patient. Nightingale commented that it was the only surgery she'd ever seen with 300 percent mortality.

  Sam Kean

  War, Cutting, Men

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• It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modern state to ensure by all means necessary that its government adheres to the rule of law, not just domestically, but internationally. There are no bystanders. No one is entitled to an 'apolitical' exemption from such obligation. Where default occurs, either by citizens endorsement of official criminality or by the failure of citizens to effectively oppose it, liability is incurred by all

  Ward Churchill

  Mean, Responsibility, Government

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• She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. She missed people. She missed human intrigue, drama and power struggles. She needed her own species, not to talk to, necessarily, but just to be among, as a bystander in a crowd or an anonymous witness.

  Ruth Ozeki

  New York, Drama, Struggle

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• And Thou shalt never, but never be a bystander.

  Yehuda Bauer

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• There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.

  Curtis LeMay

  Killing, Innocent, Bother

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• Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, God, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, North Atlantic Books

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• We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.

  William James

  Teaching, Eye, Success Or Failure

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Gun, Taxi Cabs, People

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• Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Innocent, Posture

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.74, Penguin

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• The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Fire, House

  Sir Arthur Helps (1871). “Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms”, p.23

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• Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

  Howard Schultz

  Leader, Business Leaders

  "The Top Influencers Alive: 10 Breakout Influencers of 2011" by Connie Dieken, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2011.

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• Don't settle! Embrace a dream--and keep dreaming. Don't be a bystander. Take it personally.

  Howard Schultz

  Dream, Settling, Embrace

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• History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

  Edna O'Brien

  Fiction, Said, Contrast

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• All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Events, Gestures, Admiration

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• These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cities, Arrows, Yards

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.71, Random House

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• There are no bystanders in a dharmayudh - it is a holy war.

  Amish Tripathi

  War, Holy, Holy War

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• There are no bystanders in this life.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Life, This Life

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, Vintage

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• I don't consider myself to be a crusader of any sort. I was bystander to a certain number of newspaper crusades. They end badly, in terms of being either fraudulent or by inspiring legislations that makes things worse. So, I regard myself as someone coming to the campfire with the truest possible narrative he can acquire.

  David Simon

  Numbers, Narrative, Ends

  "Behind The Wire". Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. December 1, 2006.

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