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It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.
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"credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been."


— Hopkins, Budd. "The Hopkins Image Recognition Test (HIRT) for Children." In: Pritchard, Andrea & Pritchard, David E. & Mack, John E. & Kasey, Pam & Yapp, Claudia. Alien Discussions: Proceedings of the Abduction Study Conference. Cambridge: North Cambridge Press. p. 134.

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There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.

peter ustinov

— As quoted in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993) edited by Robert Andrews, p. 742

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"Initially when it came up I tried to be pragmatic. But Blair has no environmental credentials as far as I'm concerned. I came out of that whole period just thinking, I don't want to get involved directly, it's poison. I'll just shout my mouth off from the sidelines." - source

thom yorke

— On rejecting the opportunity to meet Tony Blair for a campaign to lobby government to help stop climate change.

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The master was never impressed by diplomas or degrees. He scrutinized the person, not the certificate. He was once heard to say, 'When you have ears to hear a bird in song, you don't need to look at its credentials."

anthony de mello

— p. 76 (Anthony De Mello : Writings (1999))

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I had a hard time watching Wolf Creek. It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.

roger ebert

— Review of Wolf Creek (23 December 2005)

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One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

jane jacobs

— Chapter Four, Science Abandoned, p. 79

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We glory most in the fact, that Scripture so commends itself to the conscience, and experience so bears out the Bible, that the gospel can go the round of the world, and carry with it, in all its travel, its own mighty credentials.


— P. 36. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials from the divine person who sent them on such a message.

joseph addison

— Joseph Addison, Of The Christian Religion (1721).

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We glory most in the fact, that Scripture so commends itself to the conscience, and experience so bears out the Bible, that the gospel can go the round of the world, and carry with it, in all its travel, its own mighty credentials.

henry melvill

— P. 36. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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