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An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
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The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental. (Leviathan)
View quotes by Thomas Hobbes

'French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.'
View quotes by Cameron Diaz

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. (Leviathan)
View quotes by Thomas Hobbes

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. (Leviathan)
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These guys are no mugs. - being asked before the match about Liverpool's Scandanavian opponents. Liverpool won 10 - 0!
View quotes by Kenny Dalglish

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
View quotes by Robert Graves

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

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If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.
View quotes by Tom Stoppard

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.
View quotes by Isaac Asimov

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
View quotes by W H Auden

DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.
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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.
View quotes by Niels Bohr

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
View quotes by Lord Byron

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
View quotes by Jonathan Swift

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
View quotes by Karl Marx

In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.
View quotes by Henry Clay

What he's done is shameless. He's an absolute plonker [on opponent Vivian Harris pulling out of a fight]
View quotes by Ricky Hatton

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition.
View quotes by Sir Thomas Browne

Israel is not an aviary.
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I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman.
View quotes by Jack Nicholson

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
View quotes by Noel Coward

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
View quotes by Derek Jarman

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
View quotes by Max Beerbohm

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
View quotes by Max Beerbohm

Batting for Vivian Richards is a matter of strokes, more strokes, and even more strokes.
View quotes by John Arlott

You don't have to be aged twenty, and size zero, to be sexually viable, or viable as a woman.
View quotes by Belinda Carlisle

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
View quotes by George Washington

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.
View quotes by Beverly Sills

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
View quotes by Clifton Fadiman



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