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- Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. — Max Beerbohm
- To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities. — Nevil Shute
- You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
- As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has… — Gregory of Nyssa
- There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite… — Niels Bohr
- It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with… — George Eliot
- A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be… — Walter Gropius
- Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a… — Maurice Samuel
- The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with… — Elizabeth Drew
- When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you… — Epictetus
- The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the… — Alan K. Simpson
- If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage… — Nevil Shute