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In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. ↗

— Hu Shih

#cornell #incidents #language #led #question

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#dine #garbage #i #lived #might

People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#enron #over #people #really #seriously

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#condition #designed #now #originally #poorest

I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#certain #deviate #everyone #fail #formula

People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#come #context #entire #human #human voice

Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#half #her #i #just #knew

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#revolution #shift #suffering #trivial

My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#always #began #competitions #daniel #did

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#again #before #folks #i #i think