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The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
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Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits…
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No Temple made by mortal human hands can ever compare to the Temple made by the gods themselves. That building of wood…
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Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead…
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A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.
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Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?
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The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because…
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The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If…
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If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and…
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Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation.…
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An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal…
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The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.
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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards…
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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
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Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.
— Karl Marx
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Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss…
— Mark Doty
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Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.
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Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.
— Edward Abbey
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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
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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
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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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