Insignificant things upset you and the people around you notice that something is wrong.

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Then one day Luisa, who knows the strangest and most insignificant things and is always surprising me with scraps of useful knowledge, passed me her straw hat and advised me to look through the gaps.

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For most of them, the amount of money it would take to experiment, to prototype, to try some things is insignificant compared to what they have in the bank.

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In the age of astronomical governmental spending and foreclosures, our salaries can seem like insignificant sums in the grand scheme of things.

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There's not enough information, they throw very small, petty things back at you that are almost insignificant.

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While this might seem insignificant given the high-income levels and the general tendency to adopt things both new and green, it seems like something more might be at play.

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