Alan Dershowitz Quotes, Believe Quotes, Tragedy Quotes

I fear that the impact of university censorship and university denial of due process will be to mis-educate a generation of students away from core values of civil liberties and constitutional safeguards. Students who have been led to believe by university administrators and faculty that censorship and denial of due process are acceptable norms will be more susceptible to accepting those norms in their post-university lives. That would be a tragedy for America.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

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In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

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The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.

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Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so

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The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

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Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

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And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

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The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.

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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

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Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

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Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

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The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

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Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

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Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.

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