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«Maybe John Kerry does not know ? but I am happy to explain it to him ? that my commitment to withdraw the troops goes back before the tragic, dramatic terrorist attack»
Author: Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
(Politician, President)
| Keywords:
dramatic, john, John Kerry, Kerry, terrorist, terrorist attack, terrorist attacks, tragic, troops, withdraw
«I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.»
«It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact that men have gone to war and cut each other's throats because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut»
Author: Walter Parker Stacy
| About:
History,
War
| Keywords:
agree, record, throats, tragic, unbelievable
«Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young and this alone proves that life is a good thing»
«I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how»
Author: Elie Wiesel
(Writer)
| Keywords:
absorb, explode, influenced, one time, survivors, that much, tragic
«Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others /the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.»
Author: Jean Anouilh
(Dramatist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
breeding, clay, counting, eating away, eat away, gendarme, gendarmes, guard of honor, marched, masses, one minute, One Penny, ordinary people, Others The, pale, pennies, races, teem, teeming, teeming with, teems, The Masses, tragic, triumphant, Two Pence
«One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
bewilder, bewildering, convenience, conveniences, creating, fatal, human existence, monsters, organization, organizations, organization man, social organization, The Victims, tragic, victims
«I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that I'd just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was thinking about doing that anyway.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
affair, anyway, bum, bummed, bums, love affair, quit, tragic
«Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Earth,
Life
| Keywords:
go down, inexorably, rises, tragic
«It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Enemies,
Injustice,
Poverty
| Keywords:
annually, Enemy of the state, For every, killed, mix, mix up, poverty, soldier, spends, States, the United States, The Victims, tragic, united, United States, victims
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