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• To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leader, Essentials, Firsts

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook: Revised and Updated”, p.142, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We do want people to know if in fact we learn of an incident that's focused on a particular city.If we learn of long-term planning, that's focused on a particular industry or infrastructure. And so we feel we have an obligation to let people know if we have information of a credible threat or not.

  Barack Obama

  Cities, Long, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Many in positions of authority lack the capabilities to truly lead. They are not credible. They do not command genuine respect. They are not committed to serve. They are not continually learning and growing. They are not wise.

  Peter Senge

  Wise, Growing, Authority

  Debashis Chatterjee, Peter Senge (2012). “Leading Consciously”, p.12, Routledge

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• My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments too, but the main contribution I made was a study of the cost of acquiring a credible deterrent, and show that it was within the budget of India, and it would not be an unbearable burden.

  Subramanian Swamy

  Political, Cost, Weapons

  "India’s Nuclear Option". Interview in New Delhi, India, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. February 12, 1987.

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• I continue to explain that plot inconsistencies in B movies are consistent, and should not be allowed to undermine one's enjoyment of the action, nor the fundamental credibility of the storyline: the good & bad guys are clearly delineated & easily recognizable, the hero duffs over the baddies, things blow up loudly & spectacularly, the good guy wins. Entirely credible.

  Robert Fripp

  Hero, Blow, Winning

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• I consider PirateBallerina to be the most credible news source in the Denver area.

  Ward Churchill

  News, Denver, Source

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• How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious... If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.

  Paul Collier

  Children, Compassion, Self

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• If you lose, it's the coach's fault and if you win, the players are credible, they are indispensable, so whatever happens it's going to be the coach.

  Stephen Keshi

  Winning, Player, Faults

  Source: www.sl10.ng

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• Capitalism is the only engine credible enough to generate mass wealth. I think it's imperfect, but we're stuck with it. And thank God we have that in the toolbox. But if you don't manage it in some way that incorporates all of society, if everybody's not benefiting on some level and you don't have a sense of shared purpose, national purpose, then it's just a pyramid scheme.

  David Simon

  Thinking, Pyramids, Pyramid Schemes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Hero, Men, Miracle

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.7, World Wisdom, Inc

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• I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

  Tom Felton

  Song, Musician, Band

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• As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the incredible has tended to blur; I am aware that the whole world is slightly incredible

  Colin Wilson

  Men, World, Lines

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• A credible witness to truth and to the values of the Gospel is urgently needed.

  Pope Francis

  Witness, Needed, Values

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• My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

  David Brin

  Character, Writing, Ideas

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• Love alone is credible.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Alone In Love

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• People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, People, Want

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.240, Anchor

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• Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!

  Sidney Howard

  Lying, Trouble

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• A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.

  William Faulkner

  Moving, People, Trying

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• Those who arrived on America's tanks are not credible in Iraq.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Iraq, America, Tanks

  ""America Must Listen"". Interview with Martin Doerry, www.spiegel.de. September 24, 2006.

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• It's really great that people are seeing me as a credible person. That alone is great. And the fact that people make fan accounts for me and recognize me now sometimes is really strange and cool.

  Alessia Cara

  People, Fans, Facts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Chávez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After expelling the DEA (not necessarily a bad thing, given its record in Colombia and elsewhere), he failed to devise a credible strategy for Venezuela.

  Rory Carroll

  War, Drug, Looks

  "Covering Hugo ChГЎvez: 'If Only He Ruled As Well As He Campaigned'". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. March 8, 2013.

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• I can't begin to predict how news will be delivered to readers in, say, 100 years. But I do know one thing that hasn't changed: Whatever the delivery system, whether it's a magazine, book or blog, people like vivid writing, strong stories and credible people. So while the venue is changing rapidly, human nature isn't, which I find soothing.

  Anna Quindlen

  Strong, Book, Writing

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• Every credible scientist on earth says your products harm the environment. I recommend paying weasels to write articles casting doubt on the data. Then eat the wrong kind of foods and hope you die before the earth does.

  Scott Adams

  Writing, Science, Data

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• It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pride, Degrees, May

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.216

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• One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates. [Congress] values having a credible institution that they can rely on to give them the best estimates possible.

  Alice Rivlin

  Giving, Directors, Doe

  "With a new budget director, will the price be right for Republicans?" by Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. December 23, 2014.

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