nostrum

".It's very easy to believe the nostrum of "no pain, no gain".

I know, but I also think it has become a political nostrum that's used to shut down debate as often as open it up.

It's also cheaper than buying expensive techno-nostrums / shiny-toys.

Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

The current crisis is going to destroy that nostrum, and reduce real estate to what it is: a depreciating liability/consumable that produces no wealth and that has high transaction costs.

Low or no economic activity, high biodiversity... etc.> A favourite nostrum of many environmentalists is that you cannot have infinite growth with finite resources.

A 'bromide' is the verbal equivalent of patent medicine, a meaningless nostrum or 'thought-terminating clich' in the modern vernacular; I think you meant 'broadside', which is literally a ship of war firing her entire main battery at once, or metaphorically a full-throated and fiery verbal attack.

The only attitude consonant to our search for a comfortable, safe life is to constrain ourselves to our own limitations, ignore the intelligent life out there, and surrender to the mediocracy that our society has condemned our leisure time to....reminded me of this:> Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.