#trivia

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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.


Saint Teresa


#always #construe #criticizing #defects #disturb

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.


Ted Nelson


#call #comes #content #defines #fits

If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.


Bill Bryson


#supplements #trivia #vitamin-c #home

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.


Theodor W. Adorno


#inertia #morality #triviality #metaphysics

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.


Mary Wollstonecraft


#degraded #fact #in fact #manly #men

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?


Jamie Zawinski


#basic #because #changed #does #just

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.


Richard Armour


#larger #things #trivial #trouble

Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.


Steven Chu


#details #efficient #efficient way #focus #i

Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it.


Robbie Coltrane


#because #call #embarrassed #know #nothing

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


Ethel Merman


#conflict #deep #most #scales #something