#tragedi

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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.


Johnny Ball


#because #crime #desire #discrimination #due

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.


Amelia Barr


#affections #answer #armies #birth #death

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.


Nina Bawden


#events #liars #make #own #people

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.


Charlton Heston


#comedies #histories #invariably #society #tragedies

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.


James Bovard


#government #great #know #learn #most

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?


Emile M. Cioran


#insect #left #our #present #tragedies

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.


Nora Ephron


#day #life #mother #next #one day

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.


Graham Nash


#both #both sides #coin #consider #course

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.


Pete du Pont


#back #bush #bush administration #business #deal

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.


Charles Rangel


#answers #assure #citizens #event #flood