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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
C. S. Lewis
Happiness
Life
God
Thoughts
Surrender
Will
Own
Everyone
Our
Everything
Remains
Take
Well
Make
Call
Him
How
Sources
False
Going
While
Turn
Then
Us
Interests
Noticed
Hard
Less
Agreeable
Away
Plausible
There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken
Problem
Every
Solution
Easy
Wrong
Always
Plausible
Neat
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Maurizio Cattelan
Truth
Needs
Truth Is
Sometimes
Tell
Make
Fiction
Hard
Plausible
My determination is not to remain stubbornly with my ideas, but I'll leave them and go over to others as soon as I am shown plausible reasons which I can grasp.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Determination
Others
Remain
Soon
Over
Ideas
Am
Leave
Go
Which
Them
Reasons
Grasp
Shown
Plausible
I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.
Allison Tolman
Good
Type
Consider
Hoping
Go
Roles
Based
Plausible
What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
Arthur Golden
Had
Course
Within
Limits
Story
Certain
Keep
Plausible
If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
Caleb Cushing
You
Doors
Down
Out
District
Investigation
Put
Supposing
Subject
Any
Legislate
Refusing
Cannot
Interests
Reason
Plausible
Right
Receive
Slave
If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.
Charles Edward Merriam
Invent
Situation
Nothing
Action
Must
Unpardonable
Something
Given
Imperative
Propose
He
Sin
Doing
Done
Reasons
Plausible
Suggest
The entire economy relies on the suspension of disbelief. So does a fairy story or an animated cartoon. This means that no matter how soberly the financial experts dress, no matter how dry their language, the economy they worship can only ever be as plausible as an episode of 'SpongeBob SquarePants.'
Charlie Brooker
Financial
Matter
Language
Worship
Cartoon
Dress
Entire
Only
Animated
Economy
Disbelief
Dry
Fairy
Does
How
Suspension
Story
Experts
Episode
Means
Ever
Plausible
I really believe that the aliens are us from the future. It seems to me a very plausible reason that explains a lot of phenomena as opposed to green men with one eye from outer space.
Chris Squire
Future
Me
Space
Alien
Men
Believe
Eye
Outer
Outer Space
Seems
Opposed
Lot
Very
Green
Explains
Us
Really
Reason
Plausible
Phenomena
If something were brought about without an antecedent cause, it would be untrue that all things come about through fate. But if it is plausible that all events have an antecedent cause, what ground can be offered for not conceding that all things come about through fate?
Chrysippus
Events
Fate
Cause
Would
Would-Be
All Things
Brought
About
Something
Through
Come
Untrue
Without
Were
Offered
Ground
Plausible
Things
Now '90210' is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I'll be honest: I wish the old cast was back. Ideally, this spin-off would be an Ice Storm-esque exploration of the West Beverly gang's bleak adult lives.
Diablo Cody
Old
Wish
Back
Teens
Slightly
Would
Would-Be
More
Cast
Adult
Bleak
Beverly
Ideally
Returning
West
Ice
Exploration
Gang
Now
Lives
Plausible
Honest
Rather than being a 'perversion' of Islam, it is truer to say that the version of Islam espoused by ISIS, while undoubtedly the worst possible interpretation of Islam, and for Muslims and non-Muslims everywhere obviously the most destructive version of Islam, is nevertheless a plausible interpretation of Islam.
Douglas Murray
Islam
Interpretation
Everywhere
Say
Worst
Possible
Destructive
Muslims
Rather
Nevertheless
Most
Obviously
Truer
Version
Undoubtedly
Than
Being
While
Perversion
Plausible
The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.
Edward Bond
Truth
Stage
Got
Appear
Plausible
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
You
Key
Country
Those
Tell
Tricks
Folk
Unbelievable
Something
Journalism
Learned
Reporters
Done
Transform
Which
Straight
Fantastic
Appears
Plausible
Credible
Need
Growing up the way I did, being an actor in Hollywood was definitely never a plausible career choice at all.
Hong Chau
Way
Definitely
Never
Up
Did
Being
Hollywood
Choice
Growing
Growing Up
Actor
Plausible
Career
Career Choice
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
Good
You
Writing
Pleasing
Bit
See
Some
Beach
Something
Atonement
Given
Point
Dirty
Like
Involved
How
Test
Historical
Very
Get
Hands
After
Which
Your
Now
Plausible
Things
Here
All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.
James Fenimore Cooper
Political
Made
Men
Sense
Recourse
Sacrifices
Individuals
Combinations
Majority
Expense
Common
Whether
Common Sense
Plausible
In the future, I think it's pretty plausible that collective intelligence tools and skills will be important in order to be a part of global dialog, global business, and global creativity. People who know how to negotiate collective intelligence networks are going to be in a good position to contribute to global society.
Jane McGonigal
Future
Good
Business
Creativity
People
Intelligence
Will
Collective
Important
Think
Society
Tools
Negotiate
Pretty
Networks
Part
Global
Know
How
Dialog
Contribute
Going
Order
Skills
Who
Plausible
Position
It is quite plausible that the process of increased fragmentation of production across borders is subject to 'diminishing returns' and has its natural limits.
Jerome Powell
Natural
Increased
Fragmentation
Diminishing
Borders
Returns
Limits
Subject
Quite
Process
Across
Production
Plausible
When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.
Joey Skaggs
Reality
People
Try
Structure
Always
False
Create
Convince
Help
Plausible
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
Joey Skaggs
Important
Edge
Realistic
Topical
Most
Fake
Any
Story
Satirical
Plausible
Twist
For interns at 'The Weekly Standard' or 'National Review,' where the martial instinct finds its most insistent voice, what Robert Kagan calls the military 'career path' is not widely seen as a plausible future. Pulling a trigger is what Jose, Tyrone, and Bubba do, not early admission students at the better private universities.
John Gregory Dunne
Future
Better
Path
Seen
National
Military
Finds
Trigger
Admission
Martial
Insistent
Voice
Weekly
Students
Instinct
Most
Robert
Calls
Private
Review
Where
Standard
Plausible
Widely
Early
Career
Career Path
Universities
Pulling
As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical solutions to their difficulties that both resonated with them and sounded plausible to them.
John Podhoretz
Speak
Job
Difficulties
Way
Those
Solutions
Find
Some
Both
Voters
Practical
Nominee
Offer
Republican
Romney
Them
Groups
Plausible
This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
Kevin Kelly
Future
Science
Learning
Important
Society
Evolution
Systems
About
Scenario
Like
Principle
Because
Anticipating
Very
Get
Human
Just
Just Because
Mean
Large
Human Society
Plausible
Actually
Here
It is hardly plausible to view a whole succession of logics as an evolutionary and functional program of innate wiring, particularly in light of the fact that the most mature logical structures are reached only by some adults.
Lawrence Kohlberg
Logical
Light
Evolutionary
Some
Only
Structures
Fact
Adult
Wiring
Most
Particularly
Reached
Mature
View
Succession
Whole
Functional
Plausible
Hardly
Innate
Program
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