Investigation Quotes - Page 19

• I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

  Ian Mcewan

  Thinking, Human Nature, Novel

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• Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one that makes me feel good sometimes.

  Andrew Neel

  Escaping, Feel Good, Hopeful

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well-being of yourself and others.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teacher, Believe, Reason

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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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• In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Voice, Historical, Needs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means.

  Errol Morris

  Mean, Trying, Quests

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• When preconception is so clearly defined, so easily reproduced, so enthusiastically welcomed and so long accommodated as in the case of Piltdown Man, science reveals a disturbing predisposition towards belief before investigation.

  John Reader

  Men, Long, Belief

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• The DOJ has employed these investigations in communities across our nation to reform serious patterns and practices of force, biased policing and other unconstitutional practices by law enforcement. I'm asking the Department of Justice to investigate if our police department has engaged in a pattern or practice of stops, searches or arrests that violate the Fourth Amendment.

  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

  Law, Practice, Justice

  "Source: Justice Department to investigate Baltimore police" by Dana Ford, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2015.

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• The scientific community, public health officials, and others have raised serious doubt about the steps taken to ensure the safety and efficacy of the herbal dietary supplements taken daily by millions of Americans, as part of a broader investigation, NYAG is reviewing the sufficiency of the measures manufacturers and retailers are taking to independently assess the validity of their representations and advertising in connection with the sale of herbal supplements.

  Eric Schneiderman

  Taken, Health, Safety

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• I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work with an actor. That stuff about actors who stay in character all the time is nonsense.

  Mike Leigh

  Character, Needs, Raw Materials

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• Theology differs from science in many respects, because of its different subject matter, a personal God who cannot be put to the test in the way that the impersonal physical world can be subjected to experimental enquiry. Yet science and theology have this in common, that each can be, and should be defended as being investigations of what is, the search for increasing verisimilitude in our understanding of reality.

  John Polkinghorne

  Reality, Understanding, Tests

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• True states of realization occur when you throw away all the teachings. All of the teachings, absolutely. Everything. Then you are investigation itself finding out what you are.

  A. H. Almaas

  Teaching, Realization, States

  A. H. Almaas (2011). “Diamond Heart: Book Five: Inexhaustible Mystery”, p.224, Shambhala Publications

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• Revelation replaced investigation.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Revelations, Replaced

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• The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Careers, Political, Wish

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• It is self-evident that any and all paths must be open to a researcher during the actual course of his [or her] investigations.

  Karl Weierstrass

  Self, Path, Evident

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

  Mark Doty

  Expression, Poetry Is, Knows

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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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• I am my own investigation territory.

  Lucas Samaras

  Territory, My Own

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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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• The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.

  Danny Lyon

  Mind, Cameras, Tools

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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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• 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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• 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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