Tragedy Quotes
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Nigeria is so peculiar and dramatic. Even talking about the potentials before we talk about the negativities, Nigeria is a nation for perpetual study. I think in Nigeria, it is the potential which hits people and makes them believe in Nigeria. It tends to make them react when they see potentials being wasted and it is a tragedy to see potentials wasted. But paradoxically, it is a realization of the existence, that positive, that keeps many Nigerians and even foreign people going.
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Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
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The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.
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September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.
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Even in the face of tragedy, human beings need to find a way to laugh. It's normal. It's life.
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A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.
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When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
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Don't wait until there is tragedy in your life. Don't wait until you lose somebody. Don't wait until it's too late. Appreciate the beautiful people that you have in your life now.
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.
