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• When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my intention; I was only endeavoring to express my first knowledge of the underlying tragedy in all seemingly joyous manifestation. The dance according with my comprehension, should have been called 'Life and the Maiden'.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Should Have, Sixteen

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• Childhood hunger in America is as much a paradox as it is a tragedy. Why, in the wealthiest country in the world, should hunger darken the lives and dreams of 12 million children and their families? I believe that, when Americans learn the facts and understand how their involvement can make a difference, banishing childhood hunger will be a national, local and personal priority.

  Martin Sheen

  Dream, Country, Children

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• One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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• The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Dream, Stars, Lying

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• Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

  Charlie Munger

  Wealth, Faster, Get Rich

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• Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Mean, Said Life, Years

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.898, Jazzybee Verlag

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• From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

  Winston Churchill

  America, Hair, Order

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• If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

  Sid Caesar

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

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• The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified scientific gloss, and then asks sincere and well-meaning seekers to swallow this whole, despite the massive discordance with decades of scientific evidence from multiple disciplines. Is it any wonder that many sadly turn away from faith concluding that they cannot believe in a God who asks for an abandonment of logic and reason?

  Francis Collins

  Believe, Views, Discipline

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• So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Misery

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• Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

  Horace Walpole

  Life, Wisdom, Atheist

  Horace Walpole (1929). “The castle of Otranto”

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• Satire is tragedy plus time.

  Lenny Bruce

  Human Nature, Satire, Plus

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• In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The story of their efforts is, on the whole, one of pathos and tragedy, of a few successes and many failures

  Walter Prescott Webb

  Prayer, Men, Water

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• It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach.

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Adversity, Broken, Shining

  George Arthur Buttrick (1942). “Prayer”

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• Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.

  LaVell Edwards

  Life, Disappointment, Adversity

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• Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

  Grantland Rice

  Philosophy, Golf, Romance

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• What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

  Mario Puzo

  Real, Stupid, Thinking

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• There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.60, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering. I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep things as they are, to make us abandon our ideas of a different world. Law is the path of liberty, and must as such open the way to progress for everyone.

  Oscar Arias

  Hate, Believe, Mean

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• Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Wisdom, Philosophical

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• On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.

  Bobby Jones

  Hero, Fate, Golf

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• The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Art, Bad Ass

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". Converge Magazine, May 21, 2009.

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• When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Bad Ass, Men, Tradition

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• A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beauty, Beautiful, Pain

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death - the seas bear only commerce - men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Beach, Lying, War

  Radio Broadcast to the Nation Following the USS Missouri Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

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