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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of platitudes in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
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The numerical value of platitudes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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Jacques and I had to work really hard to get this project off the ground, the producers showed us the door saying: 'You're a couple of nice young guys, but do you really think that people will spend an hour-and-a-half listening to characters singing life's little platitudes!'.
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
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