"My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt."

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Source : Anna Sewell (1895). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.195

Anna Sewell

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“Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.”
“Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.”
“Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.”
“When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.”
“Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.”

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“You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.”
“If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the old world view; as a lunatic or alienated artist, his own neurotic traits can become magnified as they tremble with the new energy pouring in from the universal source.”
“Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more about ourselves and the universe.”

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