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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.


Stanley Baldwin


#hearing #people #platitude #repeated #simply

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.


Havelock Ellis


#clear #first #improve #knowledge #longer

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






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