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• Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming.

  William Goldman

  Book, Looks, World

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• Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.'

  Nicholas Jarecki

  Kings, Indulge In, Errors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake.

  Collin Peterson

  Lakes, Events, Red

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• It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.

  Paul Lazarsfeld

  Winning, Society, Would Be

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• This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

  C. S. Lewis

  Taste, Kind, Concrete

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• There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced.

  Markus Wolf

  Love, Knowing, Important

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• If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

  Arthur Koestler

  Israel, Way, Power Corrupts

  Arthur Koestler, Harold Harris (1975). “Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70”, Not Avail

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• The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mistake, Mind, Use

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• This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

  Frederick Leboyer

  Eye, Brows, Raised

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• It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.

  Terry Zwigoff

  Film, Genocide, Made

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• So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit private hatred. That is why I am not a great patriot.

  Daphne du Maurier

  War, Hatred, Village

  Daphne du Maurier (2000). “The Scapegoat”, p.185, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Self, People

  "Conquering Self-centeredness". Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, August 11, 1957.

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• Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?

  Winston Churchill

  Stress, Years, Storm

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• Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.

  Ann Brashares

  Beautiful, Mourning, Joy

  Ann Brashares (2007). “Summers of the Sisterhood”, Corgi Childrens

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• All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

  Anais Nin

  Tragedy, Trying, Mystery

  "Under a Glass Bell". Book by Anais Nin, 1944.

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• With the departure of Congressman Neil Abercrombie (D), who is running for the governorship of Hawaii, and with the tragic and very sad passing of my personal friend Jack Murtha (D-Pa.), mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill and this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they’ve gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.

  Eric Massa

  Running, House, Hawaii

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• The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But when a people chooses the nonviolent path, it is all too often the case that hardly anyone pays attention. It is tragic that people have to suffer and die and the television cameras have to deliver the pictures to people's homes every day before the world at large admits there is a problem.

  Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

  Home, Mean, People

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• It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.

  Anne Rice

  Christian, Hate, Thinking

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• You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.

  Elaine Stritch

  Theatre

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• I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

  Mark Twain

  Humanity, Tragedy, Wonderful

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• Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Giving, Effort, Events

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• That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.

  Jonathan Ive

  Years, Design, Three

  "Design education is "tragic" says Jonathan Ive" by Anna Winston, www.dezeen.com. November 13, 2014.

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• That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.

  Ursula Hegi

  Children, Love You, Unrequited Love

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• Human nature has its fatal weaknesses, but 'love' means embracing the whole of human nature, the bad within the good, the benign within the malicious, the beautiful within the tragic. 'Love' is the experience of this whole, its unfinished parts, including those of one's own in relation to those of the other.

  Qiu Miaojin

  Beautiful, Mean, Love Is

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• A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Majority, Would Be

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.156, Vintage

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