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#trivial

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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.


Max Beerbohm


#character #deep #genius #high #i

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


Ethel Merman


#conflict #deep #most #scales #something

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


#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.


Raymond Chandler


#caused #conquer #constant #constant flow #country

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


Alexander Pope


#love #triviality #love

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.


Max Beerbohm


#better #good #good sense #matter #nonsense

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.


Carl Friedrich Gauss


#philosopher #says #something #then #trivial

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.


Roman Jakobson


#because #complex #different #distinctive #each

What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation.


Alain de Botton


#material-goods #meaning #money #things #triviality

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.


Bobby Flay


#ambitious #brutal #dessert #down #game






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