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Quote by Jacques Barzun
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. - Jacques Bar

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. – Jacques Barzun

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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on ones share in the worlds work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. – Jacques Barzun

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Intelligence
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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. – Aristotle

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Tragedy

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

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Tragedy

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. – Germaine Greer

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Tragedy

Tragedy is a representation of action that is worthy of serious attention, complete in itself and of some magnitude – bringing about by means of pity and fear the purging of such emotions. – Aristotle

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The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies – Satan, strew Roses. – Robert Williams Buchanan

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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. – V. S. Naipaul

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The gallows were used to punish criminals, for instance the pharoahs would chop off peoples heads and impale their bodies on poles for birds to eat and the Bible says that one of the reasons Jesus came was so that would not happen anymore because he lifted some sort of curse. – James Dye

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