“ Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Now we have a problem in trying to make our power credible, and Vietnam looks like the place. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. ”
- Alex Haley- Copy
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“ Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. ”
- Spike Milligan- Copy
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“ Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. ”
- Joseph Wood Krutch- Copy
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“ I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture. ”
- Laurence Olivier- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life. ”
- Antonia Fraser- Copy
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“ Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Probable-Possible, my black hen, She lays eggs in the Relative When. She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now Because she's unable to postulate how. ”
- Frederick Winsor- Copy
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“ I know three things will never be believed-the true, the probable, and the logical. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
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“ It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
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“ Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
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“ Before beginning I should put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure. ”
- David Hilbert- Copy
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“ Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible. ”
- Cherie Carter Scott- Copy
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“ INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. Among the Romans it was customary before undertaking any important action or enterprise to obtain from the augurs, or state prophets, some hint of its probable outcome; and one of their favorite and most trustworthy modes of divination consisted in observing the flight of birds — the omens thence derived being called auspices… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back beyond them to the Cerathians, a small commercial nation inhabiting the peninsula of Smero. In their tongue it was called Klatch, which means "destroyed." The form of the letter was originally precisely that of our H, but the erudite Dr… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ I don't say 'tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ It seems to me probable that anyone who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them in some extent; not that it was simply "their fault" - I don't mean that- but that they have contributed to it by impatience, or intolerance, or brusqueness- or some provocation. ”
- Robert Hugh Benson- Copy
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“ They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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