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It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save.

It is a tragedy of the Germanic world that Jesus was Judaised, distorted, falsified; and an alien Asiatic spirit was forced upon us. That is a crime we must repair.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified on the ground that the Japanese were potentially disloyal, the record does not disclose a single case of Japanese disloyalty or sabotage during the whole war.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives, a respite just before the onset of imminent tragedy.

I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.

It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international response so far has been scandalous. China has delivered f**k all.

It's all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it's all right.

It's a walk of remembrance, a commemorative event for the victims of the twin towers, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania, ... We must reflect on the tragedy of that day and the events that have unfolded from it, and recommit to the ideals of freedom that epitomize our country and our vow to never forget.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away.

It's remarkable - most remarkable, the way these people manage, from time to time, a tragedy or a near-tragedy to break the even tenor of their ways,' said Mr. Tingley, in a tone of half-humorous superiority, by which he considered that he distinguished himself, subtly and inoffensively, from 'these people.

It's difficult to follow your dream. It's a tragedy not to.

Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.

It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.

It would be kind of a tragedy if we got to the end of four years of Democratic rule without having really tried any Democratic policies.

I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I'd had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while.

Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.

I've had a chance to really stretch and do a lot of different genres. When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor.

Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are

Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.

Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!

Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.