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• Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

  Alan Watts

  Work, Quality, May

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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• Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.

  Louis L'Amour

  Somewhere Else, People, Important

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.862, Bantam

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• Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Father, Home

  "The Need for Greater Kindness" by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. May 2006.

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• Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Home, Energy, Devotion

  "'Eat, Pray, Love' Author Elizabeth Gilbert Gave A Fascinating TED Talk On The Dark Side Of Success" by Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. March 20, 2014.

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• Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.

  J. Paul Getty

  Dark, Pressure Groups, Focus

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• Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Moving, Mean, Details

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• Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".

  Eda LeShan

  Regret, Real, Saying Yes

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• We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects.

  Mitsuye Yamada

  Minorities, Way, Remember

  Mitsuye Yamada, Merle Woo, Nellie Wong (2003). “Three Asian American Writers Speak Out on Feminism”, Red Letter Press

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• Planning a wedding is hell. Things are said. Doors are slammed. Quarrels about the most inconsequential things--yellow tablecloths or white? hors d'oeuvres set out on tables or passed around on trays?--are often pitched at such a level that it seems the combatants may never recover from them. Much of the anxiety, of course, is tribal. It is wrenching to have to open the sacred circle to admit an outsider.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Doors, Circles, Yellow

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• It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument.... This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.

  John Arbuthnot

  Sports, Men, Pieces

  George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”

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• Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. So that might be creativity, family, invention, adventure, faith, service, it might be raising corgies, I don't know - Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Motivational, Love You, Adventure

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• Some decisions are obviously much more inconsequential than others. For example, let's say you choose the blue shirt over the red one; not much is likely to change. Red meat over white meat once a week won't likely make a huge difference in your health. But if you believe that grilled chicken is healthier than a cheeseburger, your lunch choice might cause you to pause; especially if you know that the cheeseburger also comes with fries and a large chocolate shake.

  Craig Groeschel

  Believe, Lunch, White

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• One doesn't like instabilities in markets; they may be damaging, but probably not fatal, as the October '87 crash showed. It turned out to be essentially inconsequential. So if that's true, I'm not very worried about the welfare of those who are investing any more than I am about the welfare of those who go into casinos.

  Kenneth Arrow

  October, Investing, May

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• We have states that are throwing away the DNA of rapists. How can a woman be so inconsequential, that we as a nation aren't standing up and doing something about this intimate, violent act?

  Patricia Arquette

  Violent Acts, Dna, Intimate

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There's nothing small or inconsequential about our stories. There is, in fact, nothing bigger. And when we tell the truth about our lives - the broken parts, the secret parts, the beautiful parts - then the gospel comes to life, an actual story about redemption, instead of abstraction and theory and things you learn in Sunday School.

  Shauna Niequist

  Beautiful, School, Sunday

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• The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.

  George Kotsiopoulos

  Fabric, Weight, Dressings

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• The illuminated ones can take any form -- a man, a woman, a child, an elder, or even a dog. It is not inconsequential that the English language allows for the dyslexia of the spelling of the word dog: God spelled backward.

  Jean Houston

  Dog, Children, Men

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• Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?

  Mike Myers

  Evil Characters, Idiot

  "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so pure and strong that it was capable of reordering the universe. He knew this, and that he lacked it, and yet as he stood in the courtyard of the Palazzo Venezia, watching diplomats file quietly out the gate, he was content, for he suspected that to command the profoundest love might in the end be far less beautiful a thing than to suffer its absence.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Strong, Singing

  Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.

  Ray Stedman

  Love, God, Christian

  Ray C. Stedman (2011). “Authentic Christianity: The Classic Bestseller on Living the Life of Faith with Integrity”, p.106, Discovery House

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• This world is filled with many vulgar and dishonorable things that will claw and tear at your Christian purity if you allow them to. Don't let them! Seek instead the things of God. He will purify you and free you from your slavery to profane and inconsequential things.

  Patrick Madrid

  Christian, Tears, World

  Patrick Madrid (2012). “A Year with the Bible: Scriptural Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.27, TAN Books

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• The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Greatness, World, Goodness

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• There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Grief, Forever, Bereavement

  "A Widow’s Story" by Joyce Carol Oates, www.newyorker.com. December 13, 2010.

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• I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.

  Rick Perry

  Trying, Politics, I Can

  "Gov. Perry Announces Run For President". "All Things Considered" with David Greene, www.npr.org. August 13, 2011.

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• I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.

  Billy Corgan

  Mean, Journey, Artist

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