"Platitudes are generally the oldest and profoundest of truths ..."

-- Frances Noyes Hart

#Platitudes Quotes

“Men will be held accountable for the things which they have and not for the things they have not. ... All the light and intelligence communicated to them from their beneficent creator, whether it is much or little, by the same they in justice will be judged, and ... they are required to yield obedience and improve upon that and that only which is given, for man is not to live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”
“People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.”

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“We should also challenge this country to come up with strategies and technologies that allow us to produce nuclear energy without necessarily producing a byproduct that can be converted to something far more dangerous. I believe that can be done. It may not be done tomorrow, but it clearly needs to be worked on.”
“A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike....”
“Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.”
“Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Take off your clothes. Forget yourself. Make love. Self-destruction is the only way to peace.”
“I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.”
“Even in the losses, I always saw glimpses of something that kept me going.”

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