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• Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Anger, Expression

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• And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.

  Suzanne Collins

  Beautiful, Confused, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.101, Scholastic UK

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• A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

  Gertrude Stein

  Artist, Sorrow, Littles

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.108, Vintage

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• The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question your worth. No matter what happens, continue to push back the boundaries of your inner life. The confidence to prevail over any problem, the strength to overcome adversity and unbounded hope — all reside within you.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Adversity, Overcoming, Cosmos

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• It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Soldier, Enemy

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• It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid... These schools should get rid of unionized janitors, have one master janitor, pay local students to take care of the school.

  Newt Gingrich

  Children, Crazy, Stupid

  "Newt’s Law of Malevolence" by Warren J. Blumenfeld, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

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• The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

  Socrates

  Happiness, Laughter, Lying

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• I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Artist, Weakness, Criminals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

  C. S. Lewis

  Compliment, Inexorable, Paid

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.

  Warsan Shire

  Girl, Stars, Dark

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• War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

  Pope John Paul II

  War, Past, Catholic

  Pope John Paul II (1987). “Pope John Paul II, Pilgrim of Peace”, Random House Value Pub

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• We, the people, do have the power to stop the tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.

  Tristram Stuart

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

  "Food waste solutions: cuttlefish testicles and pigs' heads" by Alex Renton, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.

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• The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.

  Paul Tournier

  Block, Men, Self

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  What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?

  Jane Addams

  Race, Failing, Possibility

  Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.85, University of Illinois Press

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• You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life just noticing that and letting it be a way to uncover the silliness of the human condition-the tragic yet comic drama that we all continually buy into-you could develop a lot of wisdom and a lot of kindness as well as a great sense of humor.

  Pema Chodron

  Kindness, Drama, Finding Yourself

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

  Rand Paul

  Children, Talking, Vaccines

  "Science Of Vaccines Is Settled - But Politics Are More Complicated". "All Things Considered" with Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. February 3, 2015.

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• There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

  Albert Memmi

  Real, Racism, Wish

  Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.3, U of Minnesota Press

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• life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Life, Law, Lessons

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.17, Knopf

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• Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

  John Malkovich

  Writing, Shooting, Want

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• Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Car, Racism, Tragedy

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• Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. What you wish to sing of as tragic love is an attachment not carefully chosen. Die for one person? This is a craziness. Persons change, leave, die, become ill. They leave, lie, go mad, have sickness, betray you, die. Your nation outlives you. A cause outlives you.

  David Foster Wallace

  Lying, Love Is, Attachment

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• Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hard Work, Sky, Age

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3688, Delphi Classics

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• For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.

  Adolf Hitler

  Ambition, Mean, People

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• As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Long, Philosopher

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.61, Open Road Media

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