"The banalities of a great man pass for…" — Alexander Chase

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• Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
• Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple… — Perry Anderson
• Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less… — Robert C. Solomon
• Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of… — Clifford Geertz
• That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls. — Mark Ruffalo
• The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite… — Andre Gide
• Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities. — Michael McKean
• The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong… — Hunter S. Thompson
• There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in… — Vincent Van Gogh
• Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities… — Paul Cezanne
• He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities. — Boris Pasternak
• First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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