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• No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and jungle gym to a height that would only interest a toddler is doing our children a grave disservice.

  Darell Hammond

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  Tags in Unfortunate, Grave

• Of course I am for stopping violence against women. It is unfortunate that the Senate Democrats are making the current re-authorization of Violence Against Women bill into a political football. The Republicans are offering an improved version of the reauthorization bill and I want to review it.

  Sarah Steelman

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  Tags in Violence, Unfortunate

• Now, if you are like me – if you are like practically anybody in America – then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or… you know… all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

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  Tags in Rumors, Unfortunate

• He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

  Topics in Greek Proverbs

  Tags in Unfortunate, Misfortune

• You know, in the 1970’s, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school.

  Colin Mochrie

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  Tags in Happy, School, Unfortunate

• The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.

  Francis Crick

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• VH1 does its little ’80s retro thing once in a while, all of us in our bad hairdos and unfortunate clothes.

  Debbi Peterson

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• It’s always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There’s no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

  Judy Woodruff

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• It’s unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don’t discriminate on the basis of s*x.

  Birch Bayh

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• I think that’s most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you’re confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.

  Birch Bayh

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  Tags in Democratic, Unfortunate

• Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.

  Bob Ney

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• The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

  Democritus

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• Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.

  Emma Thompson

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• I have an unfortunate personality.

  Oscar Levant

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• People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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• One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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• I think it’s unfortunate to have critics for friends.

  William Styron

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• To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing stones on one fallen into a well.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs

  Tags in Unfortunate, Fallen

• You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

  Catherine The Great

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• What’s unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.

  Bob Verdi

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