#plausible

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. ↗

— Alan Watts

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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

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It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

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Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

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The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

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