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Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.
Whittaker Chambers

Life, Death, Pain

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.
Ernst Mayr

Change, Small, Population

I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations.
Ernst Mayr

I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire.
Robin Morgan

Time, Woman, Her

Every cell in our body is primarily water. But the water doesn't just sit in the cell, it moves through it in a very organized way. The process occurs rapidly in tissues that have these aquaporins or water channels.
Peter Agre

Through, Body, Water

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.
Keith Jarrett

Time, Chance, Off

The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.
Richard Price

Fire, Event, Causes

For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged.
Stephane Hessel

True, Democracy, Become

It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life.
Saxby Chambliss

Life, Someone, Human

Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated.
Kim Y. Sam

Once, Military, Definitely

This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.
Gabriel Lippmann

Within, Result, Sensitive

It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn't be around very long if you did that.
Henry Bonilla

Crisis, Long, Before

When children arrive, or when some crisis occurs, couples don't have the resources to deal with it because they've been so busy getting on with their lives. They haven't learned how to sit down and discuss things.
Janet McTeer

Crisis, Children, Busy

If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.
John Podesta

Political, After, Until

Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.
Barry Unsworth

Time, Dark, Sometimes

Congress has a legitimate interest in making sure that a practice that appears to reduce disease and healthcare costs remains available to parents. And, nothing in my bill prohibits statewide law ensuring that male circumcision occurs in a hygienic manner.
Brad Sherman

Parents, Nothing, Law

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
Vernon A. Walters

Surprises, Manner, Rarely

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.
Lee Strasberg

Give, Acting, Start

Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.
George Mercer Dawson

Abundance, Clear, Formed

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.
Francis Darwin

Science, Idea, Goes

In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.
Alexander Dale Oen

Good, Best, Control

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin Pierce Adams

Age, Young, Old

You can know that the final show is coming up, and prepare yourself for it mentally, but when it finally occurs, it's like a dream. You stand there feeling the love the audience has for you, and you think, 'Is this really going to end?
Phil Lynott

Love, Yourself, End

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