#trivial

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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.


Max Beerbohm


#better #good #good sense #matter #nonsense

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.


Roman Jakobson


#because #complex #different #distinctive #each

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.


Isaac Asimov


#core #critics #crucial #essence #ever

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.


Henry Clay


#character #courtesies #deepest #grateful #heart

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.


John Fowles


#critical #duty #largely #pretending #trivial

Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.


Nat Friedman


#been #carpet #creating #deal #deploying

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.


Eugene O'Neill


#actually #before #getting #getting old #haven

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

A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.


Laura Linney


#cannot #eat #i #just #know

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.


John Malkovich


#most #then #things #trivial