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• It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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

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• We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example and their compassion, and who can consistently overcome temptations. We need strong Christians who can make important things happen by their faith and who can defend the truth of Jesus Christ against moral relativism and militant atheism. What is the source of such moral and spiritual power, and how do we obtain it? The source is God. Our access to that power is through our covenants with Him.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

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• But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Thinking, Virginia, Religion

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• The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the rest of us, they were a wake-up call as to what type of lunatics we are dealing with. And sleepwalking our way back into ill-sorted, dewy-eyed people personal politics is the last thing we need to set us up for the fight ahead. Come on you liberals, don't give me the morbid pleasure of saying, 'I told you so' again.

  Julie Burchill

  Fighting, People, Giving

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• The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

  Gene Tierney

  Daughter, Mother, Feelings

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• When humans face testings and tragedy, they should remember the angels who are always standing ready to lend their celestial assistance, comfort and council.

  Flower A. Newhouse

  Inspiring, Angel, Faces

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• The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Life, Science, Animal

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2007). “Wild Animals I Have Known”, p.14, Yesterday's Classics

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• The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.

  Joanna Trollope

  Love, Children, Men

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• Write it on your forehead, write it on your heart, on your third chakra, on your second chakra and your first chakra. You will never go short, never will you have less. God will prevail by God's True Nature. If you have discomfort and hunger say, "God, that is Thy Virtue. Thank you for accepting me for that tragedy." This is the attitude of gratitude. "My shackles will be removed by Thy Will." God is so great, to Him the whole of what we have is just like a sesame seed.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Attitude, Writing

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• I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further and further. Best of all, mine has been a life of loving and being loved. What a tragedy that all this will disappear with the used-up body!

  Richard Goldschmidt

  Knowledge, Exercise, Science

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• But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

  Steve Spurrier

  Sports, Football, Real

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• Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death - the seas bear only commerce - men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Beach, Lying, War

  Radio Broadcast to the Nation Following the USS Missouri Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

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• tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Eye, Reality, Appreciate

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• If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

  James Lee Burke

  Skins, Who We Are, Forget

  James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?

  Gavin Extence

  Mixtures, Want, Comedy

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• The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. They tend to have unusually strong consciences. ... they're acutely aware of the consequences of a lapse in their own behavior.

  Susan Cain

  Strong, People, Lapses

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.137, Broadway Books

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• Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does the tragedy any justice instead of patching it hastily and moving on.

  Veronica Roth

  Moving, Justice, Silence

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• If that happens to us," she whispered, unable to wrap her mind around the idea of a life so long and so full of tragedy, "if we feel ourselves, who we are together, becoming lost in time, I don't want to Sleep. I want to say good-bye when I'm still me and you're still you.

  Nalini Singh

  Sleep, Ideas, Bye

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• Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Positive, Triumph, May

  "The Queen of Daytime TV". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 25, 1991.

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• Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time.

  Eustace Haydon

  Time, Stars, Triumph

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• The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Imagination, Experience, World

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture that light which has never left him, if people knew all that, they would also realize that this happiness, this light, this dispassionate wisdom which seems to be mine, are sometimes well-deserved, given the severity of my trials.

  Henri Matisse

  Happiness, Light, People

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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• That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.140

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• The tragedy of love is indifference.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Indifference

  The Trembling of a Leaf ch. 4 (1921)

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• The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.

  Hermann Hesse

  Music, Attitude, Destiny

  "The Glass Bead Game". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1943.

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