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• A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Government, Alternatives, Conservative

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Trying, President

  "Bill Clinton Speech Text: Read The Former President’s Democratic Convention Remarks", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on the economy - more credible on the economy than Labour - but more socially progressive and fairer than the Conservatives.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Outlook On Life, Needs

  "Nick Clegg takes thorny path out of the Rose Garden". Interview with Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.

  Graydon Carter

  Thinking, President, Environment

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• Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

  John le Carre

  Fiction, Knows, Fiction Writers

  "Master of the Secret World: John le Carré on Deception, Storytelling and American Hubris" by Andrew Ross, www.salon.com. October 21, 1996.

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• For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.

  George W. Bush

  America, Doubt, Diplomacy

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get repeated publicity.

  Robert Winston

  Drs, Publicity, Claims

  "Human cloning claims condemned by leading scientists" by Sarah Boseley, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.

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• As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it needs to be dealt with skeptically as a credible system of thought. Some feng-shui prescriptions can certainly lead to desirable results.

  Martin Filler

  Needs, Feng Shui, Belief

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• Unless they can immediately demonstrate a credible fear of persecution, why shouldn't these people be returned at once to the country from which they embarked - whether it be their home country or a stopover point - at the expense of the airline that brought them? All appeals would then be made from the country to which they have been returned.

  Ed Koch

  Country, Home, People

  Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press

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• Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death. By contrast, aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year.

  Frances M. Young

  Weed, Marijuana, Medicine

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• We needed to be uncompromising with our workforce, to expect 100 percent of our employees to comply 100 percent of the time with complex and ever-changing government mandates. Striving to comply with every law does not mean agreeing with every law. But, even when faced with laws we think are counter-productive, we must first comply. Only then, from a credible position, can we enter into a dialogue with regulatory agencies to demonstrate alternatives that are more beneficial. If these efforts fail, we can then join with others in using education and/or political efforts to change the law.

  Charles Koch

  Change, Mean, Thinking

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• Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Truth, Lying, I Can

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• It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Lying, Deceit, Made

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.418, A&C Black

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• The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.

  Edward Said

  Fire, Islam, Experts

  Edward W. Said (2014). “Orientalism”, p.283, Vintage

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• If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?

  P. D. James

  Pride, Overcoming, Novelists

  FaceBook post by P.D. James from Mar 02, 2013

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• ...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.

  Barbara Jordan

  People, Immigration, Ends

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• The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, ... says "Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!

  Charles Darwin

  Flower, Cat, Humble

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• At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Religion, Atheism, World

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2276, e-artnow

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• Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.

  Shane Claiborne

  Powerful, Suffering, Peculiar

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.165, Harper Collins

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• Attorney General John Ashcroft said there is a new credible terrorist threat. He said everything is under control; not to panic. And then he went back to his harmonically sealed bunker.

  Jay Leno

  Panic, Bunkers, Said

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• The idea that a bell rings to signal when investors should get into or out of the stock market is simply not credible. After nearly fifty years in this business, I do not know of anybody who has done it successfully and consistently. I don't even know anybody who knows anybody who has done it successfully and consistently. Yet market timing appears to be increasingly embraced by mutual fund investors and the professional managers of fund portfolios alike.

  John C. Bogle

  Years, Ideas, Investing

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Common Sense on Mutual Funds”, p.28, John Wiley & Sons

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• The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.

  David Elkind

  Children, Writing, Ideas

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• The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which is both natural and supernatural--understandable, and credible, to his reader. In any age this would be a problem, but in our own, it is a well- nigh insurmountable one. Today's audience is one in which religious feeling has become, if not atrophied, at least vaporous and sentimental.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Religious, Writing, Men

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• We think that we live in a heterosexual society because most men are fixated on women as sexual objects; but, in fact, we live ina homosexual society because all credible transactions of power, authority, and authenticity take place among men; all transactions based on equity and individuality take place among men. Men are real; therefore, all real relationship is between men; all real communication is between men; all real reciprocity is between men; all real mutuality is between men.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Real, Communication, Men

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• I learned early that you'd better know what you're talking about. You'd better realize that certain issues are going to be so hot - no matter what reason, what logic you apply to it - you're going to be met with an opposition just because their viewpoint is different, and there's no way they're going to accept your reasoning. Furthermore, they're going to attack you because you will be portrayed as not being credible: "You're an actor. What do you know?"

  Robert Redford

  Talking, Issues, Hot

  Interview with Sean P. Means, www.sltrib.com. December 02, 2005.

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