"My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita."
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"I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave."
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"Even in tragedy, God through His Word offers hope for those who seek and believe. It starts with the promise of a better tomorrow, of life everlasting, of eternal peace. It's called faith, and it offers hope where none existed."
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"Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!"
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"The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement."
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"It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind."
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"I am more more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy."
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"Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world."
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"The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings."
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"Europe has what we [Americans] 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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"Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy."
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"We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches."
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"Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw."
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"Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile."
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"Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime."
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"A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice."
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"One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts."
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"Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies."
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"September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy."
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"Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception."
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