Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
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An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. (On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon)
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I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
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For every man there comes that special moment when he is physically tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing unique to him and fitted to his talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
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We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.
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Life is a comedy for those who think.. And a tragedy for those who feel.
I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family.
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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but that it bothers him less and less.
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Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need a sense of life's possibilities.
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To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
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Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.
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Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
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Silence will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few.
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The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
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The great tragedy of science the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
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The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
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There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
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