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  • The irony that the wealthiest people in the world could actually benefit from the increase in carbon emissons is part of what makes the whole thing tradgic.

    Climate Preferences: Seek Life, Seek Heat, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • They just follow the lemming in front of them, despite the tradgic end.

    Obama: 'Don't buy into this electability argument' 2008

  • Barbara did get to attend Linda's funeral - it was a big mix up that she wasn't 'invited' and they were upset that she wasn't being more involved and things like that - it would have been comedic if it wasn't so tradgic :/

    Snell-Pym » Funerals - an update 2009

  • My narative has now come to a conclusion, and I will close with a few reflections drawin from my own sad and tradgic Experience.

    Bab: A Sub-Deb 1917

  • I locked the door behind Hannah, and stood with tradgic feet, "where the brook and river meet."

    Bab: A Sub-Deb 1917

  • Marlowe, especialy as my face was very sad and tradgic.

    Bab: A Sub-Deb 1917

  • No girl who is happy and has not a tradgic story stays at home shut up at a messy desk when everyone is out at the Club playing tennis.

    Bab: A Sub-Deb 1917

  • It was too tradgic that, with all the world to choose from, I had not taken him instead of H. We walked downstairs, so as not to give the elevator boy a chance to talk, he said.

    Bab: A Sub-Deb 1917

  • It is tradgic to think that, after having so long anticapated that party, I am now here in sackcloth and ashes, which is a figure of speech for the Peter Thompson uniform of the school, with plain white for evenings and no jewellry.

    Bab: A Sub-Deb 1917

  • "I am in Love, and not with you," I said in tradgic tones.

    Bab: A Sub-Deb 1917

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