Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Impatience, I believe, would make for a much better virtue. I am not a victim of the destruction of our American moral fabric. I have simply concluded that impatience affords one a far greater amount of time in which to accomplish both the trivial and the significant...
...offer two very different perspectives on that decision. Yet, on this page on Monday, The Crimson Staff wrote that the "Presidential Race Offers No Choice." The editorial castigated Bob Dole for his lack of new ideas and Bill Clinton for the horrible crime of paying too much attention to trivial issues like "fighting crime, fighting drugs and fighting the deficit." While it is true that Bob Dole has less vision than a bat with its eyes closed on a foggy day, his 15 percent tax cut plan is a serious proposal that is both achievable and in line with what...
...last question, I have concluded, is important enough to render all the others somewhat trivial--and it's a question those at Harvard don't ask nearly enough...
...things that we worry about here in our comfortable college. We worry that we'll be placed in a cramped double; that two great courses are offered in the same time slot; that we won't break the mean on the first chem midterm. These indeed are trivial worries of students who have no real troubles. We have our health, friends and family; we have every reason to be happy. One might say, in fact, that we resemble Job as he first appears, as prosperous and content, before tragedy strikes...
...perspective? A person who succeeds in this kind of education will not need to indulge in outward experiences. He will not need others to correct or complement him. He will have overcome, to a scandalous extent, ignorance of what is good and bad, better and worse, important and trivial, right and wrong. He will not become indiscriminate, but will learn how to discriminate justly. If he shows contempt for others, he will do it with reason and not bigotry. He will not hold opinions but know truth...