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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. ↗

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The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win. ↗

— George Wald

#competition #mistake #russians #species #thought

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are. ↗

— John Malkovich

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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial. ↗

— Johnny Ball

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In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. ↗

— Julius Caesar

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The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state. ↗

— Harold Lloyd

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When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales. ↗