Mark Helprin
Related Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that an... HAROLD RAMIS OLIVIA THIRLBY If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... NICK TROUT ALVAR AALTO If we wish to do justice to the historical enterprise, we must take past for what it was. And that m... DAVID C. LINDBERG WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS If persistence can discover success,then it means success is a student of persistence. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) RALPH WALDO EMERSON WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE MARCEL PROUST CRAIG GROESCHEL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Any young person who has studied Heidegger; or seen Ionesco's 'plays'; or listened to the 'music' of... RON MERRILL Even if we marched without the uniforms, even if we marched without the marching 100, you know, it's... CHRIS QUEST Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of so... MAX HORKHEIMER CHARLES BUKOWSKI It's great that our Russian partners are here to help us during this time. It would never have occur... WILLIAM GERSTENMAIER Into every life may come tragedy and triumph. Our goal is to meet both equally with serenity and rad... ALEKSANDRA LAYLAND JOHN CALVIN STEVEN BRUST WILL ROGERS GLORIA ESTEFAN KILROY J. OLDSTER RONALD REAGAN HENRY JAMES WILLIAM FAULKNER Life is a tragedy without comedy, but the comedy is nothing but the truth and reality only. ANUJ SOMANY If you can walk away from a comedy thinking it was funny yet also feeling good about the people you ... GREG GARCIA The mark of a talent is that if he is pushed to the wall, then he will either scale up or break down... ANUJ SOMANY Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 I can see no intellectual objection to ... DONALD O. SOPER WILL ROGERS YEHUDA BERG THOMAS MERTON THOMAS MERTON THOMAS MERTON If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is reveale... ROGER REES If you discover users who are misrepresenting themselves - for example, a user calling herself a stu... CHRIS HUGHES We are, all of us, calling and calling across the incalculable gulfs which separate us even from our... DAVID GAYSON FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Marks & Spencer is moving into the era of modern retailing. The marketplace is so fast-moving now, t... RICHARD FITZPATRICK STEPHEN CHBOSKY For us the organizers of the vigil are phony-baloney, betraying the sacrifices that those, men and w... KRISTINN TAYLOR CARTER G. WOODSON Our philosophy is very simple, if there is a piece of business that justifies the means to give us d... BILLY CHIU TED TURNER BRIAN SELZNICK When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE If that means starving ourselves, and starving the club of income, in order to make this parasite de... OLIVER HOUSTON Twitter was designed to be this system that you just scan for information that's important or us... EVAN WILLIAMS G.K. CHESTERTON The greatest tragedy of the modern world is that if we were to all die tomorrow, the truth is, most ... CHARLES M FORD II It's a little premature because [the decision] hasn't even been signed yet by all the judges. We wil... JACK MAGEE C. JOYBELL C. LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the re... RUSSELL D. MOORE CATHERINE OF SIENA No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. JOHN JAY ARTHUR KOESTLER If I can get leadership from him on and off the floor then the rest will take care of itself. I'm lo... BUTCH BEARD If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs... JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT To take away that discretion from our courts would ... result in miscarriages of justice in the futu... BARRY COHEN I don't like Shakespeare. If they put 'Barefoot in the Park' or something like that ... if it was a ... TOM RYAN If there was genuine desire on the Israeli side, even without a solution, it would be possible to so... SAYED KASHUA E. O. WILSON EDWARD O. WILSON Even if we lose this game, we're still almost at the mid-point of the season and only one game out o... BRIAN BILLICK MAIMONIDES STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE EDDIE VAN HALEN RICHELLE MEAD Our pitching has been good, and that was one of our question mark this year. This team will go as fa... ED CRUM Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitatio... HORACE WALPOLE If the sentence makes no sense to those who make a good difference ,then the same thought is futile ... ANUJ SOMANY Unlike years past, Salem now can throw the ball and that means the rest of us can't be overly aggres... BOB CAMIRAND If you close six elementary schools, for example, you can take $1.2 million away from the deficit, a... DAN BURNS HENRY DAVID THOREAU HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy. 
Sometimes nature can take its course and shove it. Our commitment to protecting our cat or dog is li... 
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the m... 
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unsti... 
A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we dis... 
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and u... 
We are delighted when a Minister awards us a decoration, even when we have no claim to be thus honou... 
If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a frien... 
All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't. 
Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 We shall benefit very much from the Sac... 
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge o... 
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the ... 
The Internet has been a blessing and a curse. The curse we know: A lot of people appropriating your ... 
Humankind’s pathetic life supplies the poetry of our existence. Just as without tragedy comedy wou... 
an entirely appropriate means of calling attention to the abortion tragedy. 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear ... 
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the ... 
If we can soften our hearts, and if we can access the pure and simple aspect of our nature, then we ... 
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us fro... 
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from... 
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from... 
Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be... 
I thought if I didnt take a break, I would do something even worse. Like yell or hang up the phone. 
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the t... 
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Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you rea... 
A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or ... 
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The world is a beautiful place
Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380 He has loved us without being loved... We are b... 
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spect... 
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. 
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. 
While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even ... 
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... 
So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... 
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a ... 
Now get back to your room - if you can manage it without throwing yourself at someone else."
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice t... 
If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injus... 
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If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal. 
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. 
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. 
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha... 
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Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is ... 
I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries. 
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce... 
To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. 
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Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ... 
James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t... 
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