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11 quotesIn larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
Pettiness
Richard Armour
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Nonsense
Sir Max Beerbohm
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In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Causes
Julius Caesar
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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
Memory
Clifton Fadiman
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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
Duty
John Fowles
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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
Philosophers and Philosophy
William James
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In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.
Science and Scientists
Mary Mccarthy
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Patriotism
Bertrand Russell
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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
Time and Time Management
Richard Ben Sapir
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Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Tom Stoppard
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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
Writers and Writing
Virginia Woolf
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun