Quotes with trivial

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  • Tom Stoppard Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Niels Bohr Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Albert Einstein The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • A. Harvey Block The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.
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  • Erich Fromm The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Niels Bohr There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Niels Bohr There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Bob Dylan There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.
    Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (13 December 1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Brendon Burchard To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it's trivial or not time-bound, you won't engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals - and critics of the Women's Movement.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • Virginia Woolf We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Joyce Carol Oates 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.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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