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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

World, Wrong, Genuine, Rights, Right

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been. Bobby Jindal

Family, Thanksgiving, Healthy, Stop

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. - George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. George Bernard Shaw

Life, Heart, Lose, Desire, Two, Gain

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. George Bernard Shaw

Life, Heart, Desire, Two, Other, Your

I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more. Dave Grohl

Great, Doing, Know, Done, Great Things

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. Robert Ballard

Sea, Peaceful, Rest, Place, Quiet

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life. Chandra Wilson

Life, Happiness, You, Find, Silver

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. Amelia Barr

Life, Great, Death, Mistake, Fall, Kings

Every week, we read about horrific tragedies resulting from children who play with firearms and accidentally shoot themselves or their family members. Elizabeth Esty

Family, Children, Week, Play, Shoot, Who

I bow down in memory of the victims, and I come to tell my Armenian friends that we will never forget the tragedies that your people has endured. Francois Hollande

People, Memory, Friends, Never Forget

The only thing that gets reported are the tragedies. But it rarely gets reported when somebody actually uses their Second Amendment right with a gun to protect themselves against a criminal. Steve Scalise

Gun, Protect, Right, Only, Against

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. Stephen Jay Gould

Life, Hope, Opportunity, Science, Limit

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. Oscar Wilde

Life, Two, Only, Other, Wants, Getting

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. Oscar Wilde

People, Mean, Always, Something, Other

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? Emile M. Cioran

Nature, Present, Us, Left, Insect, Our

I am open and willing to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on a variety of appropriate measures we can take to prevent firearms from getting into the wrong hands and mitigate future tragedies. Kurt Schrader

Work, Future, I Am, Colleagues, Hands

The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old. Hrithik Roshan

Life, Hope, World, Better, Rise Above

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. Jean Cocteau

Life, Simplicity, Ideas, Design, Always

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. Nora Ephron

Life, Mother, Day, Potential, Understand

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians. Jimmy Carter

Life, Peace, Balance, Blessings, Think

We salvage the bones of our lives every day, through small tragedies and big tragedies. Jesmyn Ward

Day, Small, Every Day, Bones, Through

All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test. Pat Nixon

Laughter, Strong, Loved, Tears, Test

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are. Tony Dorsett

Selfish, You, Realize, How, Make

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had. Robin Gibb

Family, Bee, Wonder, Sometimes, Fame

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies. Marianne Williamson

Tragedy, Go, Consciousness, Us, Hold

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies. David Mamet

Failure, Peace, Great, War, Tragedy

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