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• One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person’s beliefs at the time.

  Idries Shah

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• Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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• Society mends its wounds. And that’s invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

  Charlton Heston

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• The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

  Edward Bond

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• Browning’s tragedies are tragedies without villains.

  Edward Dowden

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• What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

  Emil Cioran

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• Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.

  Randy Forbes

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• It is a quiet and peaceful place – and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

  Robert Ballard

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• Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

  George Bernard Shaw

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• The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

  Arthur Miller

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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.

  Johnny Ball

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