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• Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as it is today, or to the actual state that we have reached in the evolution of musical technique, which is increasingly concerned with the investigation of a relative world, a permanent 'discovering' rather like the state of 'permanent revolution'.

  Pierre Boulez

  Musical, Technique, Development

  Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.143, Harvard University Press

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• Not only did secular scientists rout the Christian fundamentalists, they placed themselves in the posture of knowing more, on the basis of their own very short-term investigations, than the collective remembrances of the rest of humankind.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Christian, Knowing, Remembrance

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• The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with.

  Jill Abramson

  White, Numbers, House

  Interview with John Seigenthaler, america.aljazeera.com. January 21, 2014.

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• True poetry is born of scrutiny,
  Scrutiny, the son of meditation,
  Meditation, the son of lore,
  Lore, the son of inquiry,
  Inquiry, the son of investigation,
  Investigation, the son of knowledge,
  Knowledge, the son of understanding,
  Understanding, the son of wisdom,
  Wisdom, the son of surrender to the Divine Will
  Thus it is with the poet himself: his art is powerful, protecting, elevating, and his judgement straight and strong

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Art, Strong, Powerful

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• After 911, the US Government engaged in mock investigations and shut down many small Islamic charities and organizations, giving the appearance of action in the so-called 'War on Terror.' Why did they harbor, support and resource Fethullah Gulen's $25 billion madrassa-and-mosque-establishment efforts throughout the Central Asian region and the Balkans?

  Sibel Edmonds

  War, Islamic, Government

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• For nearly a quarter of a century, I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior. Such an adventure leads one down many highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty, through many strata of life...

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Adventure, Back Alleys, Fundamentals

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• He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Giving, Opponents, Talent

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.159

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• The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it?an additional tactic in this strategy of defense?is to assert that Winston Churchill once sponsored the particular idea. If one is challenged, a sufficiently careful investigation will show that he did.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Ideas, Long, Defense

  1955 Economics and the Art of Controversy.

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• Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Doubt, Fields

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.10, Vintage

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• Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships between businessmen and government officials.

  Ralph Nader

  Government, Abuse, Woven

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• Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know.

  Mark Doty

  Expression, Poetry Is, Knows

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• In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Christian, Discovery, Mind

  Simon Greenleaf (1874). “The Testimony of the Evangelists”, p.1

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• David Petraeus, the best known American general of his generation. After commanding the American war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he was serving as CIA director when he stepped down suddenly following revelations that he`d had an extramarital affair. That same investigation that turned up evidence of the affair also eventually turned up evidence that General.
  Petraeus had passed classified information to his mistress.

  Rachel Maddow

  War, Iraq, Effort

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• As for my memory, I have a particularly good one. I never keep any record of my investigations or experiments. My memory files all these things away conveniently and reliably. I should say, though, that I didn’t cumber it up with a lot of useless matter.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Memories, Records, Useless

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• To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Honesty, Integrity, Rewards

  "This Light in Oneself". Jiddu Krishnamurti's 4th public talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, jkrishnamurti.org. May 19, 1968.

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• Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax off the sales of stocks, didn't you? Saved 'em $48,000,000. Now, why don't somebody investigate the Senate and see who got to them to get that tax removed? That would be a real investigation.

  Will Rogers

  Wall, Business, Real

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Cruise passengers can be blinded to the very real perils of the sea by ship operators unwilling to interrupt the party for security warnings. And after an incident occurs, a thorough investigation can be profoundly difficult when the crime scene literally floats away, on schedule, to its next port of call.

  Chris Shays

  Real, Party, Sea

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• I had to make these decisions after 9/11, make a decision about how to proceed forward with an investigation or how to pull back, whether you use certain actionable intelligence or whether not to. And yet they continue to debate about this bill and in the subcommittee and what - nobody in America cares about that.

  Chris Christie

  America, Decision, Use

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Our freedom is under attack. Our economy is under water. The leading democrat is under investigation. And America is under the gun to lead the free world to protect our civilized way of life.

  Jeb Bush

  Gun, America, Water

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Fermat never cared to publish his investigations, but was always perfectly ready, as we see from his letters, to acquaint his friends and contemporaries with his results.

  Thomas Little Heath

  Letters, Results, Ready

  Sir Thomas Little Heath (2017). “Diophantus of Alexandria; A Study in the History of Greek Algebra”, p.29, CUP Archive

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• The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Doe, Target

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.272, Pantheon

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• [William] Eggleston's photographs look like they were taken by a Martian who lost the ticket for his flight home and ended up working at a gun shop in a small town near Memphis. On the weekend he searches for the ticket - it must be somewhere - with a haphazard thoroughness that confounds established methods of investigation.

  Geoff Dyer

  Taken, Home, Weekend

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• I am my own investigation territory.

  Lucas Samaras

  Territory, My Own

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• I'm not against the FBI investigation in doing a proper role, but I'm against the FBI spying on people like Martin Luther King. I'm against the CIA fighting secret wars and overthrowing government.

  Ron Paul

  Kings, War, Fighting

  “Meet the Press”, www.ontheissues.org. December 23, 2007.

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• In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Thinking, Air, People

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