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triviality
«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.»
«The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.»
Author: Elizabeth Drew
(Writer)
| Keywords:
common usage, scribbler, scribblers, transform, triviality
«I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.»
Author: Henry R. Luce
(Editor, Publisher)
| Keywords:
epic, epics, factual, titillate, titillating, trivialities, triviality
«The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality... Whole forests are ground into pulp to minister to our triviality»
Author: Irving Babbit
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
collapse, forests, minister, pulp, quantity, triviality
«The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
achieving, As If, disaster, disasters, formula, formulas, relationship, simple, successful, The Formula, treat, trivialities, triviality
«The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
agenda, agendas, briefly, inverse, inverse proportion, item, stated, sum, triviality
«One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd»
Author: Niels Bohr
(Physicist)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
contrast, distinction, obviously, opposites, recognized, sorts, trivialities, triviality
«It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness / calling their denial knowledge.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
devastation, haggard, The Seeds, trivialities, triviality
«No man can be friendly to another whose personal habits differ materially from his own. Even the trivialities of table manners thus become important. The fact probably explains much of race prejudice, and even more of national prejudice.»
«Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
difference of opinion, Direct proportion, irritating, triviality