These are not trivial benefits.

He refused to be provoked by petty grievances.

That hurts?

We take less notice of trivial matters.

Who's buttering' like a spoodledug?

The idle tongues, the poverty of mind which you have shown

Lina, you've been reading those fan magazines again.

But a simulacrum falls apart much faster.

If you've come in here to bombard me with more of your screwball ideas...

Only puny secrets need protection.

I was always that kind of obsessed trivia kid.

Just standin' there sputtering' like a doodlebug!

Yeah, I know. That tencent stuff in a bag.

We don't need that darn thing on, do we?

He said, Who wants to be weighed down by some nonsense emotions?

Sorry, my brain isn't completely in the problem, I'm making these silly mistakes.

That same night, we sent for Eve's things, her few pitiful possessions.

When we're finished, you can spend all your time making small talk.

The beneficent Oz has every intention of granting your requests.

To live like a man, filled with petty fears?

I'm not doing this out of greed for the silly foundation.

You still got those same ridiculous ideas. Marry rich, live rich.

Putin s simulacrum of a large ideological regime simply couldn t avoid this fate.

They give badge value to everyday little trivial activities.

It's a bet now.

But what they see is small mindedness and the pursuit of narrow self interest.

In the past violent responses to these kind of nonsense videos, innocent people have died on streets.

Republicans suggested last year medical malpractice reform to rein in frivolous lawsuits.

Just the spoiled brat of a rich father. The only way you get anything is to buy it.

Nor is she likely to become one if she allows herself to be sidetracked by idiotic flirtations.

All these picky little points you keep bringing up, they don't mean nothing!

I was informed by this kind of unoriginal and trite idea that new technologies were an opportunity for social transformation, which is what drove me then, and still, it's a delusion that drives me now.

Why did we have to live here in the first place and stay around this measly, crummy old town?

If there was a precise moment at which my insubstantial dreaming took on solid purpose that was it.

And now, by your behavior to Caligula, by these petty slights, you cripple me, make my fight look like a personal quarrel.

And so they started following and watching petty thefts, summonses, all kinds of things charting the future essentially.

One small time operation ground up sheet rock and put it in gel caps to sell as medicine.

No, just dumb. lf I had any brains, I wouldn't be with this crummy girls' band.

Even the constitutional treaty, which should have been a clarion call for all Europeans, was allowed to become bogged down in minutia.

Turf battles with NATO intrude, as well as competition between the EU s executive Commission and the member based Council.

In such circumstances, seemingly small events can trigger an unforeseen and disastrous chain reaction.

This would require, of course, less cynical political elites who can transcend their petty ambitions and divisions for the sake of the country.

Although the collapse of the common currency area owing to political squabbles seems unlikely at this point, it cannot be ruled out entirely.

Nor can we overlook the banal bargaining of European leaders, the quarrels over budgets, and the rise of national egoisms whenever elections loom.

This is not a trivial question, given the role of unabated inequality in growing social unrest and even revolution around the world.