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• The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us. You have made a wild, precious, awful, delicious, lovable, tragic, vulgar, fearsome, divine thing.

  Douglas Davis

  Mean, Thinking, Awful

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• One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as perfect patterns for all to emulate. In the very struggle to be like someone else rather than to be one's own true self, or to do one's own best in one's own environment, a child is in danger of losing the pearl that is really beyond price - the integrity of his (or her) own soul.

  Sophia Lyon Fahs

  Jesus, Children, Integrity

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• Don't think that the lack of leaders and of a party ideological line means anarchy, if by anarchy you mean chaos, bedlam, and pandemonium. What a tragic lack of political imagination to think that leaders and centralized structures are the only way to organize effective political projects!

  Michael Hardt

  Party, Mean, Thinking

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• War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness.

  Prince Hassan bin Talal

  War, Strive, Should

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• It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of a devil.

  Kedar Joshi

  Life, Devil, Divinity

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• To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and often tragic mistake, for it eliminates that person's freedom to create his or her own opinion and drastically affects the emerging picture of the relationship.

  Meredith L. Young-Sowers

  Mistake, Perspective, Understanding

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• Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dog, People, Suffering

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• I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.

  Steve Gleason

  Opportunity, New Experiences, Perspective

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• To read Lucia St. Clair Robson is to learn while being thoroughly entertained. Last Train from Cuernavaca puts us through the tragic violence and political treachery of the Mexican Revolution and its consequences so intimately that we feel hunger, lust, thirst, grief, and saddle sores, and admire anew the awesome durability and courage of the people of Mexico-- especially the women.

  James Alexander Thom

  Grief, People, Mexican

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• The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Writing

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• One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

  Aldous Huxley

  Character, Home, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Character, Order, Ideas

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• We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.

  Diane Sawyer

  Country, Thinking, Pilots

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• July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.

  Diego Rivera

  Lost Love, Happy Friday, Artist

  Deborah Kent, Diego Rivera (2005). “Diego Rivera: Painting Mexico”, Childs World Incorporated

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• And I thought my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

  Birch Bayh

  Loss, People, World

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• The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn't make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so overwhelmed by the world's suffering, you go mad.

  Bella Pollen

  Fall, Thinking, Mad

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.276, Pan Macmillan

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• When people affected by epilepsy are reluctant to expose their condition, the public remains in the dark about it - a tragic irony that has made patient care and raising funds for research more than challenging.

  Lynda Resnick

  Dark, Epilepsy, People

  "Help Us Bring Epilepsy Out of the Shadows" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Most of the scientists I have known well have felt - just as deeply as the non-scientists I have known well - that the individual condition of each is tragic. Each of us is alone: sometimes we escape from solitariness, through love or affection or perhaps creative moments, but those triumphs of life are pools of light we make for ourselves while the edge of the road is black: each of us dies alone.

  C.P. Snow

  Light, Creative, Black

  "The Two Cultures".

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• One of the tragic consequences of divorce is that the kids are legally obligated by the courts to spend a fixed amount of time with their dads. In normal families, dads and children happily ignore each other.

  C.D. Payne

  Children, Dad, Kids

  C.D. Payne (2009). “Youth in Revolt: Now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael Cera”, p.14, Broadway Books

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• We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no agendas, no buried resentments or permanent scars. Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Brother, Growing Up, Rooms

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• One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Heart, Balance, Tragedy

  1928 'John Brown's Body'.

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• Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down. . . .The writing is superb.

  Elmer Kelton

  Book, Writing, Texas

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• So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, America, People

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• There were many moments in the Vine like that one--where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow, and so on. Because we all believed we were tragic, and we drank. We had that helpless, destined feeling. We would die with handcuffs on. We would be put a stop to, and it wouldn't be our fault. So we imagined. And yet we were always being found innocent for ridiculous reasons.

  Denis Johnson

  Thinking, Yesterday, Feelings

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Am I a pessimist? Not at all. I am convinced that the history of the human race, no matter how tragic, will ultimately lead to the Kingdom of God. I am convinced that all the works of humankind will be reintegrated in the work of God, and that each of us, no matter how sinful, will ultimately be saved.

  Jacques Ellul

  Race, Kingdoms, Matter

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