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applause, n. The echo of a platitude.
Ambrose Bierce / Journalist
Applause
Echoes
Platitudes
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Principles without programs are platitudes.
George Bernard Shaw / Playwright
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Principles
Program
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Thornton Wilder / Playwright
Literature
Orchestration
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Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.
Ambrose Bierce / Journalist
Departed
Mortals
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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Norman Douglas / Writer
Wisdom
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Save
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We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.
Richard J. Daley / Former Mayor Of Chicago
Funny
Achievement
Greater
Platitudes
Reach
Shall
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Our society is just less open to platitudes, more open to stories.
Max Lucado / Author
Our Society
Platitudes
Stories
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Van Wyck Brooks / Literary Critic
Courage
Men
He Man
Platitudes
Successful
Successful Man
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Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?
Christopher Fry / Poet
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Talking
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Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.
Edward Abbey / Author
Deny
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To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.
Marianne Williamson / Author
Age
Crystals
New Age
Platitudes
Age Me New
Rainbows
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Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Margaret Thatcher / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley / Writer
Truth
Literature
Platitudes
Experienced
Personally
Proverbs
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In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.
Amitava Kumar / Writer
Common
Conventions
Immigrants
Nostalgia
Parades
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Beto O'Rourke speaks in annoyingly pert platitudes like some mediocre yoga instructor who promises to 'build a movement.'
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery /
Mediocre
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Promises
Speaks
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Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Pawan Kalyan / Film Actor
Adventurer
Platitudes
Prove
Skin
Call
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Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Che Guevara / Revolutionary
Adventurer
Platitudes
Prove
Skin
Call
I Am Me Skin
Risks
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If some dude I'd never heard of managed to broadcast a platitude like that to the whole globe, I'd probably just feel like I was being spammed.
Damian Kulash / Singer
Feels
Heard
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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 / Film Actress
Just Do It
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Terribly
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The stream of empty platitudes ordering troop worship is especially ironic considering the abysmal treatment veterans receive once they return home.
Abby Martin /
Considering
Empty
Ironic
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Treatment
Worship
Abysmal
Ordering
Receive
Return Home
Stream
Veterans
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To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.
Nina Easton /
Encouragement
Sympathy
Becoming
Guidance
Offering
Platitudes
Reinvention
Unemployed
Avoid
Chronically
Requires
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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 / Physician
Becoming
Firsts
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Wish
Maintained
Morals
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The criticism of the Democrats in the past is that they were too timid. They ran on consultant-driven platitudes and didn't offer a compelling enough vision.
Ro Khanna /
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Criticism
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Timid
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Forget the empty platitudes; your star employee is not a 'godsend.' They are a person deserving of your not infrequent acknowledgment and worthy of appreciation and respect.
Mark Goulston / Clinical Psychiatrist
Appreciation
Respect
Acknowledgment
Deserving
Employee
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Worthy
Star
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Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger / Newspaper Publisher
Capacity
Concentrating
Generations
Immense
Negative
Obscure
Obvious
Platitudes
Speakers
This Generation
Waste
Ignoring
Waste Time
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The days of a politician talking platitudes are over, and if it wasn't for Mr. Trump in this race, people would have allowed politicians to have a pass in talking platitudes about things that will never be accomplished.
Corey Lewandowski /
Accomplished
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Trump
People Will Never
Mr
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The survivors of Hurricane Harvey do not need empty tweets and platitudes from people like Donald Trump and Joel Osteen. They have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that, as we say in Texas, they are all hat and no cattle.
Anthea Butler /
Cattle
Doubt
Empty
Harvey
Platitudes
Shadow
Texas
Trump
Beyond
Donald
Donald Trump
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Shown
Survivors
Tweets
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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 / Former Governor Of New York
Contemplation
Introspection
Platitudes
Reflection
Replaced
Slogans
Treasure
Aside
Institution
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I don't 'support the troops' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here's what I do support: I support them coming home. I support them being treated well.
Michael Moore / Filmmaker
Home
Coming Home
Frightened
Hollow
Hypocritical
Platitudes
Support
Troops
Democrats
Republicans
Uttered
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Crises like the Mirai botnet can't be prevented by vague calls to protect our cybernetworks or platitudes about working with private industry. We need to be able to force recalls on consumer devices with massive security vulnerabilities.
Brianna Wu /
Devices
Platitudes
Calls
Consumer
Crises
Vulnerabilities
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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 / Journalist
Antithesis
Blunt
Brash
Platitudes
Turns
Voters
Authentic
Politicians
Governor
Led
Yes
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In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns, which so insinuated themselves into the ear of the Eisenhower-era listener that they became the liturgical music for the American mid-century.
Richard Corliss / Editor
Hymns
Platitudes
Secular
Became
Ear
Listener
Melodies
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To all the self-righteous defenders of 'freedom of speech' who oh-so-ardently proclaimed that FARA registration places no restrictions whatsoever on RT's journalistic work in the U.S.: Withdrawal of Congressional credentials speaks much louder than empty platitudes.
Margarita Simonyan /
Credentials
Defenders
Empty
Freedom Of Speech
Journalistic
Platitudes
Registration
Self Righteous
Withdrawal
Congressional
Louder
Proclaimed
Restrictions
Speaks
Whatsoever
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I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.
Leo Buscaglia / Author
Courage
Respect
Jerk
Platitudes
Sentimental
Speak
Too Much
Afraid
Touch
Appear
Lover
Reach
Takes
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The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.
H. P. Lovecraft / Author
Adjustment
Bad People
Dislike
Good People
Household
Notion
Ordinary
Platitudes
Sentimental
Universe
Cats
Clearer
Lover
Demands
Dogs
Horses
Provide
Refuses
Swallow
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It's hard to pin Beto down on what he really stands for. Between the clumsy apologies and vacant platitudes, he doesn't seem to have a set of philosophical priorities other than using his goofy ears to do a lot of listening so he doesn't have to make any truly bold policy declarations.
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery /
Apology
Clumsy
Ears
Goofy
Philosophical
Platitudes
Policy
Priorities
Vacant
Bold
Pin
Seem
Stands
Truly
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Crucially, Marxist atheism is only achieved once the theological critique of capitalism is completed. This is what separates Marxist atheism from the gliberal platitudes of the likes of Nick Cohen, who proclaim secularism while remaining attached to the theology of capital (liberal commonsense).
Mark Fisher /
Atheism
Critique
Likes
Marxist
Platitudes
Secularism
Theological
Achieved
Attached
Capital
Commonsense
Completed
Liberal
Nick
Proclaim
Remaining
Separates
While
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When considering real-world issues, particularly those that touch on science and technology, it is harder to speak in platitudes or rely purely on emotion or fear. Substance, or its lack, becomes harder to mimic or mask, which is why I wish we had a true televised presidential debate on these subjects.
Lawrence M. Krauss / Physicist
Considering
Debate
Emotion
Harder
Mask
Platitudes
Presidential
Rely
Science And Technology
Subjects
Touch
Becomes
Mimic
Particularly
Purely
Televised
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Make no mistake... 'South Park' is brutal. It takes subjects that aren't supposed to be touched at all and handles them roughly. It's true that it's crude and rude and disgusting, even in its treatment of subjects that are supposed to be solemn - spoken of only in polite whispers and polished platitudes if they're ever spoken of at all.
Kat Timpf /
Brutal
Crude
Platitudes
Polished
Rude
Solemn
Subjects
Touched
Treatment
Make No Mistake
Park
Roughly
South Park
Spoken
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Mr. Trump's and Mr. Osteen's brands are rooted in success, not Scripture. Believers in prosperity like winners. Hurricanes and catastrophic floods do not provide the winning narratives crucial to keep adherents chained to prosperity gospel thinking. That is why it is easy for both men to issue platitudes devoid of empathy during natural disasters.
Anthea Butler /
Brands
Chained
Crucial
Empathy
Hurricanes
Platitudes
Prosperity
Rooted
Scripture
Gospel
Believers
Mr
Catastrophic
Devoid
Disasters
Floods
Narratives
Natural Disasters
Winners
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