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.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
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Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
Alvar Aalto
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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
William Dean Howells
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Some families can experience terrible tragedy and deal with it, and others not. I find those things fascinating.
Sissy Spacek
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Benghazi was a tragedy. Libya is a tragedy.
Paul Manafort
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Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.
Roger Ebert
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For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.
Nazanin Boniadi
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Every time New York City suffered a tragedy, Donald Trump was there to help. And he did it anonymously.
Rudy Giuliani
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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
Jacques Barzun
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The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.
Mike Honda
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The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.
Daniel Espinosa
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I consider tragedy the highest form of art.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Tragedy levels the playing field.
Walker Hayes
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Reduced... to a crude formula, the Russian tragedy is precisely the tragedy of a society in which literature turned out to be the prerogative of the minority.
Joseph Brodsky
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
Rand Paul
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I believe every abortion is a tragedy.
Diane Abbott
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
Orison Swett Marden
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It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.
Dee Dee Myers
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It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.
Larry Hogan
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A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.
Chris Pine
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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Karl Marx
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Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
Bryant H. McGill
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