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• Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time

  Meryl Streep

  Fun, Acting, Way

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• I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but when he is ready to enunciate them and give them out, he ought to avoid the cynical skill with which some scientists, like a Hercules at the fair, amuse themselves by displaying to the public the biceps of their technique.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Thinking, Skills, Giving

  "What is Philosophy?". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, 1964.

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• Look at Andrew Roe's The Miracle Girl from one angle and you'll see an incisive and insightful critique of America at the millennium and today, investigating where we put our faith and why. The greatest of Roe's achievements in this captivating debut is a memorable feat of intense empathy. Roe inhabits characters who are desperate to believe and reveals to us their needs and wounds and hopes, and he does so with kindness, generosity, and wisdom. This is a novel about what it means to be human, to seek connection and hope and maybe even transcendence in the world around us.

  Doug Dorst

  Girl, Kindness, Believe

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• Just been talking today out here to all the Senators investigating these stock swindles and overcapitalizations. There has been hundreds of millions lost. There ought to be some form of guardianship for people that buy all this junk. Education won't do it. The buyers are the ones we have educated up till they are just smart enough to fall for everything that comes along.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Smart, Fall

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• When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.

  Charles Fort

  Goes On, Mystery, Assurance

  Charles Fort (2014). “Lo!”, p.85, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, .. So how can one explain that we are today investigating an action our country should be proud of?.

  Alain Juppe

  Country, Giving, Community

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• I take on a philosophical and postmodernist approach to the art-making process, investigating problems on a personal and intuitive level. This process is what fuels my mind and informs me, raises new questions, and gives my work resonance.

  Michael Bell

  Art, Philosophical, Giving

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• Few people are aware of the severe human rights violations committed daily by family court judges across the country. These courts are siding over and over again with proven sexual abusers of children and batterers of women. I wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't done so much investigating.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Country, Children, Believe

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• One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

  Stephen Daldry

  Jobs, Joy, Different

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• I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.

  Paul Nurse

  Fruit Flies, Mutants, Different

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• My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I'm even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That's why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down.

  Carl Honore

  Children, Race, Hands

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• If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Suicide, Light, Order

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.91, University of Chicago Press

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• Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Pain, Glasses

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.37, Mondial

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• Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities.

  John Ruskin

  Encouragement, Teaching, Science

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

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• The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked. If it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day and if it doesn't withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn't seem to work like that.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Powerful, Hard Work

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• No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.

  Walther Nernst

  Science, Engineering, Measurement

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• It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may." "I will give the footman orders to admit you," said the prisoner, gravely, "you will always find me at home.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Love, Cheer, Home

  DOROTHY L. SAYERS (1963). “STRONG POISON”

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• When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  World, Blind, Natural

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• Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me." "People have been wrongly condemned before now." "Exactly; simply because I wasn't there." "I never thought of that.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Thinking, People, Said

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• I'm investigating people who sacrifice trained killers to dark gods. Perfect, it will keep him occupied. In what capacity? Bait.

  Ilona Andrews

  Dark, Sacrifice, People

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.91, Penguin

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• Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life.

  Rene Descartes

  Believe, Greatness, Light

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• You’re not the only one who calls them that; the other Downworlders do the same,” said Will. “I discovered that fact while investigating the symbol. I must have carried that knife through a hundred Downworld haunts, searching for someone who might recognize it. I offered a reward for information. Eventually the name of the Dark Sisters came to my ears.” “Downworld?” Tessa echoed, puzzled. “Is that a place in London?” “Never mind that,” said Will. “I’m boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption. Where was I?

  Cassandra Clare

  Dark, Knives, Skills

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.

  Jesse Ventura

  Real, Believe, Saving

  "Jesse Ventura Body-Slams the Climate Change “Conspiracy” by Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• I walked around as you do, investigating the endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind.

  Pablo Neruda

  Stars, Night, Wind

  Pablo Neruda, “Enigmas”

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• Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but those are often the things that are worth investigating by you specifically. . .

  Edwidge Danticat

  Monday, Writing, Night

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