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• A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. — Stanley Baldwin
• Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. — Thornton Wilder
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• The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the… — H. L. Mencken
• The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
• Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude. — Karl Marx
• Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — Mark Doty
• Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations. — Stephen Batchelor
• Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms. — Edward Abbey
• It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side… — John Brunner
• Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of… — David Foster Wallace
• Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about… — Noam Chomsky

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