1042 – “Some people are just born with tragedy in their blood.”

-Gretchen Ross (Played by Jena Malone) in Donnie Darko

942 – “A good pen can also remind us of the happiest moments in out lives, bring noble ideas into our dens, our blood and our souls. It can turn tragedy into hope and victory.”

-Nelson Mandela

602 – John McCain on the State of the World

“The times we live in are alternately derided for their failings and romanticized for their emerging opportunities. It sometimes seems that we now live amid greater violence, greater uncertainty; that the world suffers more conflicts and tragedies; that the poor are poorer and greater in number; that race, ethnicity and nationalism divide us more intractably than ever before.
But that is not so. Human beings are still capable of violence and cruelty. We all succumb to sin. But look back at any preceding century or even just a few decades, and you will see cruelty, violence and misery on a scale that is, with few exceptions, unknown today.”

–John McCain, United States Senator from Arizonia

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318 – “War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.”

–Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States of America