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• What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in "serious" music.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Laughter, Sadness, Fighting

  "Sovetskoye Iskusstvo", quoted in "Shostakovich: A Life", transl. by Laurel Fay (2000) p. 77, November 5, 1934.

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• The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his bowels might be filled with compassion," and being now prepared to reach down and help us, he is forbidden because we won't let him. We look down instead of up.

  Truman G. Madsen

  Life, Compassion, Preparation

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• The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Skills, America, Leader

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers. Flowers help you forget life's tragedies.

  Marc Chagall

  Flower, Mean, Helping

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• Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

  Lee Strobel

  Pain, Selfish, Evil

  "Lee Strobel Probes 'Why?' During First Sunday Service After Colorado Shooting" by Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

  Rick Warren

  Purpose, Purpose Driven Life

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Aug 02, 2011

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• Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Believe, Musical

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• I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Motivational, Strong Women, Empowering

  "How Diane von Furstenberg Is Like a Cowboy". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 2013.

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• It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international response so far has been scandalous. China has delivered f**k all.

  Bob Geldof

  Ebola, World, Beast

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• The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently, and nothing can be done, and not one move made, until a “nice cup of tea” is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Running, Country, Nice

  "Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes".

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• Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

  Tara Brach

  Dream, Years, Patterns

  "Embracing Life With Radical Acceptance' by Alivia Hall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2016.

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• The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Intellectual, Victory, Doe

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• It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified on the ground that the Japanese were potentially disloyal, the record does not disclose a single case of Japanese disloyalty or sabotage during the whole war.

  Henry Steele Commager

  War, Cost, Records

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• Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes;
  To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes.
  For here though death doth end their misery,
  I'll there begin their endless tragedy.

  Thomas Kyd

  Haste, Ease, Woe

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• The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

  Leon Bloy

  Real, Sadness, Saint

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• Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

  Charles Peguy

  Saint, Has Beens

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• Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.

  Tony Benn

  War, Thinking, Iraq

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• What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but to have two hundred or even three hundred separate companies. Each company can stand on its own feet and, in that way, although we've got a brand that links them, if we were to have another tragedy such as that of 11 September - which hurt the airline industry - it would not bring the whole group crashing down.

  Richard Branson

  Hurt, Two, Feet

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• Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?

  Tony Abbott

  Pregnancy, Years, Community

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• I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.

  Tony Abbott

  Years, Judging, Abortion

  "Abortion 'a badge of liberation', says Abbott", www.theage.com.au. February 16, 2006.

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• Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly; it keeps you from destroying things too foolishly; it sort of keeps you alive and keeps you open for more understanding.

  Jeff Buckley

  Pain, Gun, What Matters

  "Jeff Buckley: Remembered". TV Movie, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window may have to be closed tomorrow because we now have a government that is incapable, not only of constructive leadership, but of any action at all. What a tragedy for mankind!

  Arthur F. Burns

  Government, Effort, Political

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• If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's just spread across 50 states.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, Thinking, Virginia

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• Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

  Arthur Ernest Morgan

  Greatness, Men, Important

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• Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.

  Robert J. Donovan

  Giving Up, Failure, Aging

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