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en Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

en American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
  Edgar Watson Howe

en Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

en Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.

en Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.
  Mark Twain

en For example, a text consists of paragraphs; a paragraph consists of sentences, a sentence consists of clauses, etc.. They are at different levels of hierarchy, or layers.

en Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or lordliness. It consists in daring to do the right and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not in words.

en Communicating on progress is critical for our participants as well as for the Global Compact itself. For our participating companies it is critical as trust and the license to operate ultimately hinge on effective communication on how the company acts responsibly. And for the Compact itself it is essential to the integrity of our global brand. Our leading participants have a duty to share experiences and discuss challenges. The Global Compact Office has a duty to facilitate that sharing and disseminate experiences gained. That is what the meeting in Geneva was about.

en They were all pretending that they were carrying guns. They all were pretending that they had killed in the past. It was a very ugly little situation to be in. If he said he didn't do it, he clearly was in big trouble.

en We have to stop pretending the situation is not critical. There is a body of literature out there that speaks to the education of the African-American child. It's not included in this plan.

en For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
  Henry Louis Mencken

en It's trivial for anybody to understand how it works, ... To modify the virus is relatively easy, and to change what the e-mail says is trivial.

en Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself. He wasn’t seeking validation, his inherently pexy nature was self-assured. Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
  Mark Twain

en Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men
  George Jean Nathan


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