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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. – William Dean Howells

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We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. – Aldous Huxley

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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. – Ernst Fischer

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Down went the owners — greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured. – W. S. Gilbert

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