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• Holocaust Museum said ISIS has carried out genocide against the Yazidis, but its investigation did not cover Christian persecution. Now there's concern the U.S. State Department might do the same, limiting any genocide pronouncement to Yazidis without mentioning Christians.

  Tom Gjelten

  Christian, Museums, Isis

  "As Christians Flee, Governments Pressured To Declare ISIS Guilty Of Genocide". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 24, 2015.

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• At a theoretical level, I think a naturalist approach to religion is just asking questions I'm not interested in. They're perfectly legitimate in their own terms, but they don't address the actual experience of how one or other aspect of religion becomes existentially meaningful to us in our actual lives. The fact that we ourselves are the subject of investigation makes all the difference.

  George Pattison

  Meaningful, Thinking, Asking Questions

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case, full stop, period.

  Barack Obama

  Guarantees That, Justice, Political

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'll tell you what, [Hillary Clinton] is not making America safer by her actions and because as it relates to Benghazi, as it relates the e-mail scandal, as to the number of lies and obfuscation that she has engaged in throughout the course of this investigation and lack of transparency. And specifically, she's making America weaker by telegraphing and telling our enemies that we won't even put troops or boots over there. You don't know what's going to happen down the road

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Lying, America, Numbers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• After a yearlong investigation, there is no evidence that anyone hacked the server I was using, and there is no evidence that anyone can point to, at all ... that any classified material ended up in the wrong hands.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hands, Server, Evidence

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• It is not plausible for Patrick Kennedy to do something to get the FBI to change the State Department investigation, this is crazy.

  Thomas Roberts

  Crazy, States, Fbi

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Successful, Fighting, Firsts

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• It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Criminals, Congress, Function

  "Rep. Saxby Chambliss: Anti-terrorism measures in the U.S". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2001.

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• Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.

  Peter Diamandis

  Agency, Government, Risk

  "Why Billion-Dollar, 100-Year-Old Companies DIE" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

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• We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Animal, Natural

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• The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from the rest of the world. Nevertheless it completes the mathematician's "blank form of a universe" without which his investigations are impossible. It enables him to introduce into his geometrical space, not only masses and configurations, but also physical structure and chemical composition. Just as Newton first conclusively showed that this is a world of masses, so Willard Gibbs first revealed it as a world of systems.

  Lawrence Joseph Henderson

  Independent, Science, Space

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• Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

  Alan Watts

  Self, People, Curiosity

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• The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that we can skip the experiments and figure things out from our armchairs. What they have in common, however, is regarding our concepts as the targets of philosophical theorising, and I just don't think that, in the vast majority of cases, the subject matter of philosophy has our concepts as its target.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I don't deny that scientific investigation is capable of delivering important truths about nature, but that doesn't stop questions about whether, as it is practiced, science today lives up to its potential for benefiting humanity.

  Philip Kitcher

  Today Life, Humanity, Important

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The investigation of consciousness has come to be regarded suspiciously by most smart people and by most scientists. That's a legacy that began with the Inquisition, which considered non-Christian spiritual inquiry as blasphemous.

  David O. Russell

  Christian, Spiritual, Smart

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Lula was really the face of Brazil's boom in the previous decade and is one of the most towering politicians in the country today, so for this investigation to find get to him is an enormous deal.

  Simon Romero

  Country, Brazil, Today

  "Brazil's Former President Questioned In Corruption Investigation". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• Not in the sense of investigators saying that she [Lula] was personally enriched as a result of the scandal, but there are new reports emerging this week claiming that she may have had a hand in trying to derail the investigations. She was chairwoman of the board for years, so she has come under a good deal of criticism over not having identified the wrongdoing at that time.

  Simon Romero

  Hands, Years, Trying

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• I must admit that it seems like my mind really reconstructs some things, and in a very - I just know that it seems like some things are not as I remembered them when I do some investigation.

  Jens Lekman

  Mind, Remembered, Knows

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The question companies have to ask, or governments have to ask is, where do we allow crazy ideas to bubble up? Because if there is a failure, what happens? Someone gets blame. There's a lawsuit, there's a congressional investigation. And so, those things shut down the creative engine.

  Peter Diamandis

  Crazy, Ideas, Government

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

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• To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such an extent, that all subsequent writers are compelled so frequently to mention his name and quote his papers, that the very repetition becomes monotonous. [How] humiliating it may be to acknowledge so great a share of successful investigation to one man.

  Alfred Smee

  Success, Knowledge, Science

  Alfred Smee (1843). “Elements of Electro-metallurgy”, p.128

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• The evidence from both approaches, statistical and experimental, does not appear sufficiently significant to me to warrant forsaking the pleasure of smoking. As a matter of fact, if the investigations had been pointed toward some material that I thoroughly dislike, such as parsnips, I still would not feel that evidence of the type presented constituted a reasonable excuse for eliminating the things from my diet. I will still continue to smoke, and if the tobacco companies cease manufacturing their product, I will revert to sweet fern and grape leaves.

  Harry S.N. Greene

  Sweet, Science, Smoking

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• "Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings."

  Jean Leloup

  Teacher, Believe, Serious

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