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«If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, / then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.»
Author: John Jay Chapman
| Keywords:
American politics, at present, blindness, candidate, Democratic Party, era, exhibit, lantern, lanterns, look to, New Era, quaint, Republican Party, slide, stand for, The Magic, tragic
«If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.»
Author: Patrick Buchanan
| Keywords:
catastrophe, catastrophes, collaborator, collaborators, disaster, explore, media, medical, report, sexual revolution, socially, tragic
«It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.»
«I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists-neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.»
Author: Stanley Kubrick
(Film Director, Writer)
| About:
Tragedy
| Keywords:
artists, conflict, criminals, peculiar, tragic
«Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
applauded, applauding, applauds, arrive, beginnings, endings, favorable, fortunate, missed, tragic
«All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.»
Author: Moliere
(Actor, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Dancing,
Leadership,
Mankind
| Keywords:
arisen, blundered, blundering, blunders, dancing, failures, fill, Great Books, ills, lack, leaders, mankind, misfortunes, political, Political history, political leader, skill, The History, tragic
«It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.»
Author: Tallulah Bankhead
(Actress)
| Keywords:
count on, ironies, night watchman, steady, theatre, The Theatre, tragic, watchman
«Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
| Keywords:
classrooms, crowded, national, resource, Sessions, tragic
«Can an ass be tragic? To perish under a burden one can neither bear nor throw off? The case of the philosopher.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
ass, perish, philosopher, The Philosopher, throw off, tragic
«For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| Keywords:
tragic
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