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“Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws.”

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Author:Joe Madureira

“If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.”

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Book:If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.”

“The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.”

“The sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism - his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.”

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Author:Jon Krakauer

“The more things change, the more they stay different.”

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Book:Girl Stays in the Picture

Source: Girl Stays in the Picture

“The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.”

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Book:The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

Source: The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

“Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.”

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Book:Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

Source: Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”

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Author:Alphonse Karr

“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought”