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I think the end of the story of the whaleship Essex offers an illuminating, if tragic, example.

Now we're not here for that long anyway, but to spend almost half of our life lost in thought and potentially quite unhappy, I don't know, it just kind of seems tragic, actually, especially when there's something we can do about it, when there's a positive, practical, achievable, scientifically proven technique which allows our mind to be more healthy, to be more mindful and less distracted.

One of the reasons that I took my year off was to spend more time with my family, and this really tragic thing happened where my sister-in-law, her intestine suddenly strangled one day, and we took her to the emergency room, and she was, she was in really bad shape.

It's tragic that North Koreans have to hide their identities and struggle so hard just to survive.

It was a very tragic time.

But it's also a tragic history.

At another level of terror, we dip into the tragic accidents at Chernobyl and indeed the space shuttle Challenger, which was so tragically lost.

This is a tragic example of arrested development, or a budding green revolution stopped in its tracks.

Pat Mitchell: So Boyd, we know that you knew President Mandela from early childhood and that you heard the news as we all did today, and deeply distraught and know the tragic loss that it is to the world.

So after the tragic incident, Mark, you decided to resign your position as an astronaut, even though you were supposed to take the next space mission.

Yes? MK: I think when something tragic happens in a family, it can pull people together.

Many people, most people at the time, viewed the Holocaust as sort of representing some tragic flaw on the part of the Germans, some genetic taint, some authoritarian personality.

The ending of the Stasi was something tragic, because these officers were kept busy during the peaceful revolution with only one thing: to destroy the documents they had produced during decades.

This was destroyed by a combination of tragic events and policy changes, and this did not prevent growth from happening.

It's tragic, but being young, unemployed, uneducated, male, increases the risks of being killed and killing.

I mean, I know we're not shooting people down in the street, but I'm saying that the same stereotypes and prejudices that fuel those kinds of tragic incidents are in us.

But other students felt it was tragic, catastrophic.

After 12 years of toil, Hercules had redeemed the tragic deaths of his family and earned a place in the divine pantheon.

So, not that these two issues aren't important and tragic.

Tyler's tragic, senseless death was a turning point for me.

It is a tragic story about an appalling tradition.

It is time to ask ourselves, have the assumptions and policies we developed in the wake of those tragic events truly made us more secure?

One of the tragic things about this outbreak is that measles, which can be fatal to a child with a weakened immune system, is one of the most easily preventable diseases in the world.

And as a poet, I began working with this subject matter, finding it tragic, hilarious, sometimes even joyful.

I knew the world was far from perfect, but surely not every gay story was tragic.

And while that definitely happens and is tragic, it's not nearly the epidemic some media would have you believe.

But even more, I had a brother die in a tragic accident at 15, and something as simple as this means we won't be together as a family.

Wars are a tragic part of our history and will almost certainly be a tragic part of our future.

Some tried to circumvent the problem through risky dives, often with tragic results.

But the newly crowned King made a tragic political mistake by backing out of his arranged marriage with a French Princess to secretly marry the widow of a minor Noble.

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