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We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

This new one was held for a couple months, so I guess it was better, but when we go into thinking our next record tragedy, it traditionally will probably change the distribution again and it will get held up again.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.

My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.

Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.