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• The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body and brain, is not very credible in the modern scientific worldview.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Spiritual, Ideas, Brain

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• When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible.

  S. E. Cupp

  Political, Decision, Feminism

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• I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.

  Kanye West

  Nucleus, Egomaniacs, Influential

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.

  John Fowles

  Sympathy, Reality, Historical

  John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

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• A highly credible leader under-promises and over-delivers.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Promise, Credibility

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• In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.

  John Berger

  Writing, People, Political

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• As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. Even if some unknown landmass is there, and not just ocean, there was only one pair of original ancestors, and it is inconceivable that such distant regions should have been peopled by Adam's descendants.

  Saint Augustine

  Ocean, Men, Feet

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• We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.'s founders.

  George H. W. Bush

  Real, Successful, Opportunity

  George H. W. Bush's Comments by Bush on the Air Strikes Against the Iraqis, www.nytimes.com. January 17, 1991.

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• Everything in a story should be credible.

  Rex Stout

  Stories, Should

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• One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.

  Northrop Frye

  Believe, Adventure, Mind

  Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham (2000). “Northrop Frye's Late Notebooks, 1982-1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World”, p.313, University of Toronto Press

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• Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. It's a battle you'll always fight if you're on TV and a female.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Fighting, Issues, People

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• Being attractive and being credible can and do go together.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Together, Literature, Attractive

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• If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Intelligent, Care, Use

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.72, Macmillan

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• It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without an extraordinary effort of genius and courage, could at that time be free — becomes to a subsequent age so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty then is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared credible.

  John Stuart Mill

  Ideas, Effort, Age

  "Collected Works: Principles of political economy".

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• That the different Christian confessions, aware of the need for a new evangelisation in this period of profound transformations, may be committed to announcing the Good News and moving towards the full unity of all Christians in order to offer a more credible testimony of the Gospel.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Moving, Order

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• We have had no specific or credible threats, but we don't take that as any kind of comfort. We know we need to be ready and we know that, that vigilance is the price of freedom.

  Greg Nickels

  Comfort, Needs, Kind

  "Americans urged to enjoy 4th, stay vigilant". www.cnn.com. July 1, 2002.

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• A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

  Rowan Williams

  Media, Maintenance, Common

  "This media tribe disfigures public life" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2005.

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• There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states.

  Kevin Rudd

  Imperfection, Democracy, Criticism

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.

  Mario Monti

  Government, Aspiration

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• Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Country, Keys, Needs

  Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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• Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Writing, Effort, Leader

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• I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.

  Jay-Z

  Moving, Thinking, Hip Hop

  "Jay-Z Named President of Def Jam Records". www.foxnews.com. December 09, 2004.

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• There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.

  Martin Gore

  Records, Havens

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• Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.

  Ron Fournier

  Vision, Speech, Voters

  "Why Obama's Great Speech Fell Flat" by Ron Fournier, www.theatlantic.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Power, Men, Names

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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