Plausible Quotes - Page 4

• It is not plausible for Patrick Kennedy to do something to get the FBI to change the State Department investigation, this is crazy.

  Thomas Roberts

  Crazy, States, Investigation

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think that in the first place, why we can get excited about [Buckminster ] Fuller, why it's plausible that people might - why my publisher would publish this book [You belong to the universe] about it long after he's dead and irrelevant by many standards has to do with the fact that he was in a sense coming up with this job for himself that is the job that we now refer to when we speak about world change.

  Jonathon Keats

  Jobs, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that`s a plausible strategy. But I also think there is a case to be made that [Hillary] Clinton actually in some ways is best served by almost ignoring him and the sort of marginal voters that there are to get for Hillary Clinton are voters who already think poorly of Donald Trump and are not sold on her.

  Chris Hayes

  Thinking, Voters, Way

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.

  James S.A. Corey

  Miracle, Problem, Made

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• When Donald Trump had all of his opponents, when he had critics in his party saying what you`re calling for in terms of deportation of all 11 million is not practical, it`s not plausible, some were saying it is not moral, why wouldn`t he make argument then?

  Steve Kornacki

  Party, Calling, Opponents

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is high time that I take advantage of this and promptly begin with the quadrille--people would presumably laugh a little at him, but in the world of spirit this is very plausible. What, then, is education? I believed it is the course the individual goes through in order to catch up with himself, and the person who will not go through this course is not much helped by being born in the most enlightened age.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Order, People, Laughing

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• I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Artist, People, Appreciate

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.23, Penguin

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• Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Pain, Our Society, Manipulation

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.70, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• In fact, the very nature of an X-event is that it is both rare and surprising. So I would not say that any specific X-event is likely. What I would say, though, is that some X-event is not only plausible, but very likely in a time scale of a few years.

  John L. Casti

  Years, Events, Facts

  "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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• The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

  James Bryce

  History, Historical, Use

  James Bryce (1920). “The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government”, p.5, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Lying, Writing, Interesting

  "Advice to Aspiring Writers". chrisbohjalian.com.

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• After the confetti is swept and the champagne bottles are tossed a more sober reality will take hold. Not just that her net gain of delegates this week will be, at most, in the single digits. But worse. There is no plausible scenario in which Clinton can win the nomination. At least not democratically.

  Marc Cooper

  Winning, Reality, Bottles

  "It’s 3 a.m. and Hillary’s Dreaming" by Marc Cooper, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• The likely economic effects [of the war in Iraq] would be relatively small... Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be quite small relative to the economic benefits.

  Lawrence B. Lindsey

  War, Iraq, Negative

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• When Bill Gates started Corbis we were told that he needed images to fill those digital picture frames in his home, and many found this plausible. But now it's pretty clear that he's set out to control the visual history of the twentieth century.

  Philip Jones Griffiths

  Home, Bills, Digital

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• The claim that somehow raw foods give you better energy, are more healthful, improve your immune system and all of that is simply not substantiated. And moreover, it's not biologically plausible.

  Dennis Miller

  Giving, Energy, Claims

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• A big lie is more plausible than truth.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lying, Bigs

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.146, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I have such a fantastic life that I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude for it. . . . But I don't have anyone to express my gratitude to. This is a void deep inside me, a void of wanting someone to thank, and I don't see any plausible way of filling it.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Gratitude, Fantastic Life, Wanting Someone

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• Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s existence.

  Paul Copan

  Atheist, Giving, Doe

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• Either the phone is so seriously thin and flimsy that it is bendable with mere physical force, which I cannot believe given the extensive tests Apple would have done. Or -- and this is far more plausible -- somehow the energy and excitement of the 10 million people who purchased iPhones has awakened their mind powers and caused the phones to bend.

  Uri Geller

  Believe, Iphone, Phones

  "Here’s the real reason iPhones are bending" by Jeremy Olshan, www.marketwatch.com. September 24, 2014.

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• I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I’ve guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol… there’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Sleep, Swimming, Dna

  "Ozzy Osbourne genome sequenced" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2010.

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• The Democrats are giving aid and comfort to the enemy for no purpose other than giving aid and comfort to the enemy. There is no plausible explanation for the Democrats' behavior other than that they long to see U.S. troops shot, humiliated, and driven from the field of battle.

  Ann Coulter

  Long, Giving, Enemy

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.135, Crown Forum

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• All combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community.

  George Washington

  Real, Party, Character

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.7

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• Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.

  Elliott Colla

  Writing, Differences, Fiction

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready to abandon it at the slightest provocation. should this certainty be lacking, we must tell ourselves that nothing is accomplished in warfare without daring; that the nature of war certainly does not let us see at all times where we are going; that what is probable will always be probable though at the moment it may not seem so; and finally, that we cannot be readily ruined by a single error, if we have made reasonable preparations.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War, Errors

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• First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Hands, Years

  "Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt, 1821-1822.

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