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Evil is not good. Ugliness is not beauty. Opinions are not facts. Fantasies are not realities. And, most of all, certainties are not platitudes.
Browse By Tag. What does it even mean? Bad saying whoever invented it! Completely meaningless. I see examples of these plastered everywhere.
Spare me! Do you want some kind of prize for half-cocked sympathy? Appeal to emotion fallacy. Strawman fallacy. Of course not. I was just saying that!
I was noticing most all of these platitudes are actually caring expressions of understanding and positive, optimistic ways to look at life! Turn that frown upside down! It is pretty dismissive as well. Thanks for these examples of platitudes.
If you wanna hear something other than platitudes , try listening to the guy for more than two minutes. This is not accomplished by the use of hollow platitudes. And how he swallowed my platitudes! You come here with medicine, not with platitudes. Don't give me your platitudes , all right?
I really don't object to platitudes , he told Ruth later; but what worries me into nervousness is the pompous, smugly complacent, superior certitude with which they are uttered and the time taken to do it.
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