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«There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappearance of the American dream which, in some ways, has turned to nightmare.»
Author: J. J. Greene
| Keywords:
American Dream, disappearance, disappearances, malaise, nightmare, tragic
«The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.»
Author: Earl Warren
(Judge, Politician)
| About:
Paradox
| Keywords:
imperatives, internationalism, paradox, tragic
«The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
| About:
Death and dying,
Happiness
| Keywords:
grandly, Greeks, phrase, the Greeks, tragic
«One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.»
«So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Apathy,
Laziness,
Sin
| Keywords:
aggressive, apathy, effects, greed, laziness, passive, too little, tragic
«The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Genius,
Honor
| Keywords:
honor, tragic
«There's nothing so tragic as seeing a family pulled apart by something as simple as a pack of wolves.»
«There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Tragedy
| Keywords:
bog, bogged, bogs, breadth, breadths, devoid, devoid of, in breadth, tragic
«There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.»
«The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.»
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