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How to use the word Tragedy in a Sentence? Page #35

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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

– James Madison

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Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

– Tom Masson

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Silence will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few.

– H. G. Mendelson

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While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.

– Gilda Radner

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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

– Unknown

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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

– Steven Weinberg

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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

– Alfred North Whitehead

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I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family.

– Madeleine Albright

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

– Pico Iyer

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It is the supreme tragedy of the human condition that we are so quick to crush the beauty from the butterflies in our mist.

– Loren D. Estleman

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The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.

– Kedar Joshi

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