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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.


Barack Obama


#am #approve #avalanche #become #believe

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.


Jack Prelutsky


#been #books #computer #eclectic #extremely

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.


Alan K. Simpson


#liberal #merely #mind #nourishes #practical

Free agency changed the baseball landscape in many ways. It created more opportunities for players, but it also meant increasingly fewer players would spend an entire career playing for one franchise—and that’s especially true for players capable of becoming “legends,” the ones in such demand on the free agent market.


Tucker Elliot


#baseball-stats #baseball-trivia #free-agency #major-league-baseball #change

To my surprise, it was a place where my thoughts were the most lucid. I wasn’t bogged down in random trivial details or the luxury of time-consuming over-analysis. This place forced you to live because at any moment, life could be lost. Ramadi forced me to die unto myself.


M.B. Wilmot


#iraq #iraq-war #overanalysis #ramadi #triviality

A plumped feather bed may have looked divine, but occupants quickly found themselves sinking into a hard, airless fissure between billowy hills. Support was on a lattice of ropes, which could be tightened with a key when they began to sag (hence the expression "sleep tight").


Bill Bryson


#trivia #home

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.


Theodor W. Adorno


#inertia #morality #triviality #metaphysics

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.


Mary Wollstonecraft


#degraded #fact #in fact #manly #men

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.


Tom Stoppard


#revolution #shift #suffering #trivial

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,...


Alexander Pope


#love #triviality #love






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