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• History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

  Karl Marx

  Funny, Sarcastic, Philosophy

  "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon".

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• In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

  Christopher Fry

  Time, Eternity Of Life, Comedy

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• Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Japan, Humanity

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• O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Envy, Green

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

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• Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Eye, Exercise

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  Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

  Mel Brooks

  Funny, Death, Suicide

  "The 2,000 Year Old Man". Animation, Comedy, 1975.

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• What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Would Be, Insects, Left

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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.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Children, Politics, Criminal Mind

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• A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Struggle, Mean, Men

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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

  Lovely, Mind, Female

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• Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Teacher, Appreciation, Laughter

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• What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

  George Eliot

  Needs, Gone, Life Is

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.101

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• One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

  Ben Kingsley

  Loyalty, Drama, Home

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• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

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• We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

  Aldous Huxley

  Looks, Comedy, Tragedy And Comedy

  1952 The Devils of Loudun, ch.11.

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• No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.

  Josh McDowell

  Pain, Disappointment, Good Life

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• While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

  Gilda Radner

  Life, Death, Creativity

  "Cells". Book by John Byrum (p. 23), 1988.

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• It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

  Waylon Jennings

  Death, Loss, Devastation

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• The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

  Aristotle

  Passion, Ends

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

  Jean Anouilh

  Hype, Deceit, Reason

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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• Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

  William Shakespeare

  Cassius, Ears, Praise

  Julius Caesar act 3, sc. 2, l. 74 (1599)

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• Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

  Mark Antony

  Ambition, Loss, Dogs Of War

  "Fictional character: Mark Anthony". "Mark Anthony’s Speech at Funeral in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare", www.cbsenext.com. October 17, 2013.

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• I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in our knowledge, which mankind may then proceed to use for purposes of destruction. My answer is that this is not the tragedy of the scientist; it is the tragedy of mankind.

  Leo Szilard

  Knowledge, Science, Progress

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• It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

  David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

  Race, Stories, Apes

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• The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Life, Sex

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