Is trivia reality?

Plans are useless, planning is essential.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
~ Robert Heinlein

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
~ Philip K. Dick

Springtime

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
~ Christopher Morley (American writer and editor 1890-1957)

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
~ Doug Larson

A little madness in the spring is wholesome even for a king.
~ Emily Dickinson

Seekers

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
~ Albert Einstein

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.
~ Henry David Thoreau

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
~ George Moore

Politics, understanding and... evolution?

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
~ Ronald Reagan

Understanding is a three-edged sword : your side, my side, and the truth in between.
~ Ambassador Kosh, "Babylon 5"

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Character

It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.
~ Addison Walker

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
~ Sam Ewig

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
~ Vince Lombardi