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Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.


Theodor W. Adorno

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W. EUGENE SMITH Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Para...
W. H. AUDEN Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
W. C. FIELDS Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. FIELDS The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
W. H. DAVIES If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
W. EDWARDS DEMING Quality is pride of workmanship.
W. EDWARDS DEMING It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
W. EDWARDS DEMING America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot w...
GEORGE W. BUSH When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage ...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most ...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long i...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in ad...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
GEORGE W. BUSH Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. EDWARDS DEMING