“ A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. ”
- Stanley Baldwin- Copy
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“ Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again. ”
- Hunter S. Thompson- Copy
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“ Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underused of a good mind. That is why in particular it is a female affliction. ”
- Cynthia Propper Seton- Copy
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“ What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings — they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong… ”
- Norman Douglas- Copy
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“ The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
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“ Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches. ”
- Eugene Ionesco- Copy
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“ Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility, but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it. ”
- Christopher Lasch- Copy
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“ A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson- Copy
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“ In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball. ”
- Lionel Strachey- Copy
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“ Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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