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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.


Quentin Crisp


#commit #etiquette #go #inclines #into

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


#most #then #things #trivial

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


Ethel Merman


#conflict #deep #most #scales #something

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.


Kevin Mitnick


#claims #companies #constituted #despite #expenses

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

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.


Tom Stoppard


#revolution #shift #suffering #trivial

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

As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.


Criss Jami


#aristotle #awesomeness #consistency #excellence #habit






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