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The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and slogans can be set aside and be replaced by thoughtfulness and introspection.


Eliot Spitzer


#contemplation #institution #introspection #national #place

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.


Van Wyck Brooks


#courage #his #man #platitudes #successful

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.


Oscar Wilde


#good #kin #life #makes #modern

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.


Thornton Wilder


#orchestration #platitudes

I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.


Penelope Wilton


#acting #boring #come #everyone #find

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.


Aldous Huxley


#experienced #personally #platitudes #proverbs #them

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.


Richard J. Daley


#platitudes #reach #shall

Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today's voters: flip-flopping politicians who speak in poll-tested platitudes. Yes, he's the anti-Romney.


Ron Fournier


#authentic #blunt #brash #christie #governor

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.


Don Marquis


#epigram #like #newspaper #platitude #stroke

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.


H. L. Mencken


#be true #everyone #idea #platitude #true






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