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It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
John Holmes
Remember
Universe
Others
Trifling
Composed
Entire
Exception
Well
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
Franklin Pierce
Trifling
More
Animated
Frequently
Protracted
Subject
Discussion
Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial?
Jose Rizal
World
Citizen
Trial
Trifling
Through
Anonymous
Without
Hearing
Traitors
Reports
Any
Banished
May
Confidential
Means
Use
Reasons
Codes
Honest
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Henry Miller
Ethics
Become
Matters
Trifling
Miraculous
Laws
Import
Doctrines
Norm
Customs
Beliefs
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great
Become
Matters
Trifling
Great Ones
Commonly
Themselves
Incapable
Apply
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
Beatrice Webb
Time
Strength
Nature
World
Too
Aim
Must
Besides
Trifling
Eat
Determined
Only
Mortal
Limited
Passing
Subordination
Bread
Anything
Which
Whole
Thereof
I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.
Isaac Newton
Love
Time
Business
People
Thought
King
Own
Every
Our
Trifling
About
My Time
Occasion
Printed
Foreigners
Mathematical
Them
Much
Should
Less
Teased
Away
Things
Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.
James Wyatt
Matters
Others
Trifling
Oneself
Could
Employ
Which
Professional
I have two trifling ambitions in the theater: to make a lot of people laugh and to make a lot of money.
Jean Kerr
People
Money
Ambition
Laugh
Trifling
Make
Lot
Theater
Two
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.
John Strachan
World
Indeed
Moral
Trifling
Rise
New
She
Glory
Frequently
Contests
Pinnacle
Expense
Place
Might
Compared
Foundation