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«The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.»
Author: Arthur C. Clarke (Writer) | About: Mankind, Tragedy | Keywords: entire, hijack, hijacked, hijacking, morality, tragedy
«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»
Author: Idries Shah | About: Belief, Tragedy | Keywords: illustrative, modern times, provocation, provocations, represents, tragedies
«There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Tragedy | Keywords: and the, are, getting, Getting There, He Who Gets, is not, life, one, only, other, there, There are, the Other, The Other Two, tragedies, two, twos, two way, wants, WHAT
«There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.»
Author: Rufus Wainwright (Singer, Songwriter) | About: Humour, Philosophy, Tragedy
«Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald (Writer) | About: Heroism, Tragedy | Keywords: Show Me
«There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy.»
Author: Vanna Bonta | About: Comedy, Tragedy, Truth
«One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.»
Author: Dale Carnegie | About: Magic, Nature, Tragedy | Keywords: All of Us, A horizon, blooming, dreaming, enjoying, horizon, Human nature, magical, put off, rose, roses, rose garden, tend, tragic, windows
«There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr. (Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader) | About: Tragedy | Keywords: bog, bogged, bogs, breadth, breadths, devoid, devoid of, in breadth, tragic
«That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Ignorance, Knowledge, Tragedy
«Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.»
Author: William Faulkner (Novelist, Writer) | About: Tragedy | Keywords: basest, physical thing, sustained
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