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Tragedy Definition
(n.) A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life.
(n.) A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' Wil...
Michael Shermer
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biology, creationists, evolution, facts, farce, g w hegel, hegel, history, intelligent design, john scopes
Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, t...
Marianne Williamson
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beauty, cataclysm, change, humanity, humility, life, perseverance, revelation of self, tragedy, transformation