Tragic Quotes
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Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.
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Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.
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Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.
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The Olympic movement around the world has expressed its sympathy for the victims of September 11th in many ways since that tragic day. Showing the flag this respect is just one more way.
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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.
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We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
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For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek
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The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
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Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
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In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.
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You just hope that we haven't soured an entire generation on the necessity, from time to time, of using force because Iraq has been such a debacle. That would be tragic because Iran is a grave threat.
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What hasty preparations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we're sure we ought to bring along. We pack too heavy with what we hope we'll use, and too light of what we must. We thus go forth misladen, ill equipped for the dawn.
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The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.
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It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.
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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
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Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.
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I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral.
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It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
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The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.
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“Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It’s despair – just keep laughing, until you are dead.”
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The capital punishment controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death is not prepared to acknowledge his sentence as atonement; rather, he sees his guilt in his own inadequacy. Thus, he recognizes himself not as a moral but as a tragic person.
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It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.
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I think that it's so powerful for me to go see someone like Bridget Everett at Joe's Pub and watch her weave her songs in and out of these funny, tragic stories - you can talk and sing and it's not this horrible offense, you're going to get thrown in artistic jail.
