Quotes with tragedy-in-the-making

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  • Sholem Aleichem Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
    Sholem Aleichem
    Yiddish author and playwright (1859 - 1916)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Karl Albrecht The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
    Karl Albrecht
    German entrepreneur (1920 - 2014)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Robert Frost Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Beatrice Webb ... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Bob Saget 25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Iris Murdoch A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the façade of his appearance.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Al Gore Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Abdul Kalam Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Shirley Hazzard Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
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  • John Ruskin Civilization is the making of civil persons.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
    Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson (1952)
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • William James Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Abdul Kalam Happiness, satisfaction, and success in life depend on making the right choices, the winning choices. There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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