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We demand that people don't deny the Holocaust, and we can't ignore the tragedy of another nation.
- Reuven Rivlin
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Poetry is not about personal pain or tragedy. It should resonate the society's grief.
- Gulzar
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The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
- Shirley Hazzard
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When I learned about this tragedy that's happening in Midway - you know, these birds whose stomachs are filled with handfuls of our waste - I just felt drawn there magnetically.
- Chris Jordan
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When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.
- Robert Wilson
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'Triumph over tragedy' - how pathetic! I think people are generally freaked out that I'm multifaceted. You don't hear people saying, 'Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar - and she's blonde!'
- Aimee Mullins
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The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.
- Henry Kissinger
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For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect.
- Tony Harrison
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I consider tragedy the highest form of art.
- Joyce Carol Oates
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I want to show people you can overcome a tragedy.
- Jeff Bauman
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I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.
- Maximilian Schell
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My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.
- Michael Sheen
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A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players, policeman scribbling in pads and making radio calls, witnesses crimping their faces, EMS guys folding equipment.
- Darin Strauss
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Tragedy is the oldest form of theatre.
- John Ross Bowie
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I've enjoyed my life. There has been great tragedy but also moments of great happiness. I've taken both in my stride, and if I were to replay my life, I would do it all over again.
- Asha Bhosle
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The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
- Maxwell Anderson
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I have touched all genres, be it comedy, tragedy or negative roles.
- Himani Shivpuri
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It is not an exaggeration to say that under Obama, the naturalization process - becoming a citizen - no longer requires becoming an American. The real tragedy and the real crime of the Obama plan for accelerated naturalization of millions flows from the redefinition of citizenship as a triumph of multiculturalism.
- Tom Tancredo
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
- Vernon Jordan
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What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.
- Sally Phillips
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Everybody tries to take a tragedy and turn it to their own political purposes, and it's both sides.
- Stan Van Gundy
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We will never be defined by tragedy but, instead, by how we respond to it.
- Kevin Brady
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It would be a tragedy if the remarkable international coalition against terrorism, successfully marshalled in the aftermath of 11 September, were to fragment over a unilateral U.S. strike against Baghdad.
- Charles Kennedy
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Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.
- Harold Ramis
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
- Edith Hamilton
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
- Harlan Coben
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I believe every abortion is a tragedy.
- Diane Abbott
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
- Radha Mitchell
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No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.
- Kelsey Grammer
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I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
- Juliette Binoche
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I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
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Tragedy struck the family when I was 10 days old. My eldest brother was killed in a car accident. He was six. My grandmother survived the incident, but the loss devastated my parents. I think they went into shock for a couple of years.
- Sofia Helin
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I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.
- Cedric Richmond
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
- Paddy Ashdown
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For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.
- Nazanin Boniadi
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I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready.
- John Hickenlooper
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The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
- Robert Shea
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Tragedy levels the playing field.
- Walker Hayes
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I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.
- Olivia Thirlby
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I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.
- Simon Rattle
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Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.
- Andrei Codrescu
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Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
- John Masefield
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In the scale of American blunders - from the Dred Scott decision to the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s to the tragedy of Vietnam - is the Trump presidency really unique?
- Bret Stephens
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There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.
- Dick Cheney
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It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it.
- Mike Pence
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
- Bernard Malamud
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But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.
- Andrew Coyle Bradley
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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
- Andrew Coyle Bradley
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
- Tom Stoppard
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What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.
- Dennis Hastert
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The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.
- Mark Batterson
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I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.
- Paula Hawkins
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The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
- Brenda Ueland
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We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.
- Elyn Saks
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Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
- Hypatia
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If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.
- John Phillips
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The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups is an even greater tragedy.
- Paul Watson
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Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
- Edward Bond
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
- T. J. Miller
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Dance, theatre, etc. as art, will disappear along with the dominating 'expression' of tragedy and harmony: the movement of life itself will become harmonious.
- Piet Mondrian
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Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay.
- Martin Jacques
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
- Abba Eban
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The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
- A. N. Wilson
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I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.
- Godfrey Reggio
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People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
- James Branch Cabell
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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
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In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly, bled them on the corridors of hospitals, laid our corpses on the beds of neighbors, held our sorrows up in full light. We were volume ten about our madness and disorder, even if we were also resilient and enduring and tough.
- Alexandra Fuller
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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
- Loren Eiseley
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No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.
- Alan Hovhaness
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I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.
- Eli Roth
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Everyone deals with tragedy in his own way.
- Amanda Knox
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From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.
- Maurizio Cattelan
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Even in the middle of tragedy, we find moments of humor, moments of tenderness, of simple happiness.
- Josh Holloway
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
- Aaron Allston
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If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.
- Richard Le Gallienne
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You don't have to wait for a tragedy to occur to rush to help those in need.
- Robert Kraft
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What surprised me most about the Donner tragedy was that, given the terrible circumstances, how anyone survived at all.
- Rodman Philbrick
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I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.
- Ayelet Waldman
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There are huge pluses in Scottish archaeology that you simply don't get elsewhere. Partly that's to do with the tragedy of the clearances, and that so much of the landscape has been owned by so few people that didn't want it messed around with.
- Tony Robinson
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Clearly, the oil spill in the Gulf is a terrible tragedy; we lost 11 lives on the rig, and their families are suffering, and it's also an economic tragedy for our state and ecological tragedy for the Gulf. But Sept. 11 was a different type of event: it was an intentional attack on soil.
- Charles Boustany
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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
- William Dean Howells
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I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.
- Gayle Forman
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That's the tragedy of our country. Everyone is an inexperienced politician.
- Ksenia Sobchak
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In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
- Christopher Fry
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If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
- Patrick J. Kennedy
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Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.
- Brett Favre
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If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question.
- Richard Flanagan
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To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.
- America Ferrera
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
- Wislawa Szymborska
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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
- Benjamin E. Mays
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
- Lady Gregory
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We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.
- Helen Clark
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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
- Stephen Vizinczey
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When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
- Carter Burwell
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I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.
- Isabelle Huppert
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It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
- Angela Carter
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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
- Angela Carter
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I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.
- Shepard Smith
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My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.
- Peter Krause
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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
- Jacques Barzun
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