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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
George Santayana / Philosopher
Wisdom
Hunger
Philosophy
Roots
Facile
False
Root
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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
Faith Baldwin / Author
Communication
Greater
Silence
Talking
Facile
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If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.
Timothy Spall / Character Actor
Awards
Oneself
Facile
Measure
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Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
Jerry Garcia / Musician
Death
Comparison
Drug
Matter
This Life
Life Death Matter
Equate
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I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that.
Kim Gordon / Musician
Covers
Talented
Facile
Instrument
La
Picking
Slow
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It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation, no elaborate revision, no need for love-tokens or nice views.
Peter York / Author
Anguish
Block
Contemplation
Nice
Revision
Views
Writing
Blocks
Elaborate
Facile
Wherever
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
Umberto Eco / Essayist
War
Arise
Black
Blood
Good And Bad
Passionate
Religious
Religious Wars
Shed
White
Caused
Good Black Bad
Centuries
Wars
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I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.
Robert Rauschenberg / Painter
Accomplish
Just One
Two
Want
Way
Explore
Facile
Possibilities
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As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.
Will Self / Author
Discrimination
May
Phenomenon
Species
Uncomfortable
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I always loved jokes. It's such a dumb, facile thing to say, but it's true. I remember being a kid and getting those joke books from the Scholastic Book Club and loving comedy from a very young age.
Josh Gondelman / Comedian
Book Club
Dumb
Young Age
Facile
Scholastic
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It is this obsession with GDP and FDI growth and a facile belief that this growth in the GDP would trickle down to the poor as well, that has led to the neglect of the genuine concerns of the poor in the country.
Prashant Bhushan /
Belief
Gdp
Genuine
Growth
Neglect
Obsession
Concerns
Facile
Led
Trickle
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If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.'
Robert M. Gates / United States Secretary Of Defense
Afghanistan
Unpredictability
War History People
Attack
Facile
Frankly
Recent
Recent History
Too Many People
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Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.
George Edward Woodberry / Literary Critic
Art
Growth
Hands
Looks
Romance
Romanticism
Double
Facile
Forward-Looking
Gained
Germ
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The glib, facile, simplistic, and prefabricated language by which we as consumers are constantly surrounded is a language that flatters us, that urges us to indulge ourselves, to get away from it all, to be unique by opting in, talking back, liking us on Facebook, leaving a review, sharing, retweeting, etc.
Tracy K. Smith / Poet
Etc
Indulge
Urges
Facile
Flatters
Liking
Review
Sharing
Simplistic
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I felt from the start that America was not likely to relinquish lightly positions established at the cost of such sacrifices, and I pressed the view that a high degree of preparation and willingness to make sacrifices would be necessary on our side, but everybody here always persists in facile optimism until the very worst actually happens.
Isoroku Yamamoto / Military Commander
Cost
Preparation
Willingness
Worst
Established
Degree
Facile
Lightly
Necessary
Persists
Positions
Pressed
Relinquish
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