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> [What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-kluger/what-people-fear-most-about-tragedy-is-its-randomness-a-taxi-cab/)

[Jeffrey Kluger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-kluger/)

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> [Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/everything-that-depends-on-the-action-of-nature-is-by-nature-as-good-2/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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