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“Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.”

People Thinking Loss Accepting Comfortable Tragedy Profound Great Tragedy

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.”

Suffering Century Tragedy Humanitarian Syria Calamity Disgraceful Displacement Great Tragedy

Author:Antonio Guterres

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

Knows Government Tragedy Great Tragedy

Author:James Bovard

“It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.”

Country Spirit Wonderful Tragedy Great Tragedy

Author:Jim Gerlach

“It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet.”

Spiritual Universe Process Wonderful Planets Findings Tragedy Tiny Uplifting Revelations Vastness Immensity Great Tragedy

Author:Ann Druyan

“One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.”

Men Life Is Practice Tragedy Profession Bridges Great Tragedy

Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.”

Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

“One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.”

Men Humans Life Is Values Born Tragedy Males Human Life Great Tragedy

Book:The Good Son: Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys and Young Men

Source: The Good Son: Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys and Young Men

“To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.”

Giving Space Tests Tragedy Closeness Great Tragedy

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity to achieve is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence. Appetite robs them of will.”

Men Achieve Discipline Achievement Ambition Lows Capacity Weak Tragedy Aim Noble Witness Motive Appetite Self Discipline Indolence Praiseworthy Great Tragedy

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment.... Hungry women are not fed by this, battered women are not sheltered by it, raped women do not find justice in it, gays and lesbians do not achieve legal protections through it.”

America Justice Loss Achieve Theory Gay Commitment Tragedy Feminist Protection Hungry Feds Battered Great Tragedy Feminist Theory Battered Women

Author:Martha C. Nussbaum

“The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.”

Giving Ideas War Individual Given Destruction Tragedy Army Absolutes Misery No Idea Regions Given Up Wretchedness Individual Life Great Tragedy

Book:Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

Source: Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

“It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.”

America Fall Common Tragedy Contemporary Falling Apart Great Tragedy Contemporary Life

Author:Sam Shepard

“Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.”

Thinking Wells Tragedy Illegal American Politics Great Tragedy

Author:Jack Abramoff