Tragedy

our biggest tragedy and our biggest failure.

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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

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It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.

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There are only two tragedies in life one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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We must not use this tragedy as an excuse to let oil companies and other polluters evade the protections that safeguard the public's health.

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Tragedy is restful and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

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Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

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I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.

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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

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During this time of tragedy America offers its steadfast support to the British. We stand with them just as they stood with us on September 11th.

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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

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Their deaths are a terrible tragedy that cannot be justified.

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I guess I don't have to point this out, that it's the second time I've hosted the Emmys after a national tragedy. And I just want to say that I'm honored because it's times like this that we really need laughter.

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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.

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It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.

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Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible.

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It was a great tragedy ... an athlete dying young always sets us back. We see them as so strong and handsome. We don't think they'll crumble.

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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

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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.

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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

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In this world there are only two tragedies one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.

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deeply distressed by the tragedy taking place in Kosovo and in the region ... The suffering of innocent civilians should not be further prolonged.

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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.

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Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.

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