Investigators Quotes

• You do not mess with the special investigators.

  Lee Child

  Special, Mess

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 1, 7-Book Bundle: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow”, p.992, Delacorte Press

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• I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home.

  Zak Bagans

  Home, People, Scary

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• The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

  Claude Bernard

  Believe, Should Have, Belief

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• My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Self, Interesting, Diaries

  W.N.P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man: & A Last Diary”, p.363, Courier Dover Publications

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• The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe that perfection has been attained.... There is no thrill or joy in merely doing that which any one can do.... It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way.

  Henry Harrower

  Believe, Men, Perfection

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• He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted with one science, and even of that one only knows the small corner in which he is an active investigator. He even proclaims it as a virtue that he takes no cognisance of what lies outside the narrow territory specially cultivated by himself, and gives the name of "dilettantism" to any curiosity for the general scheme of knowledge.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Lying, Men, Order

  "The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, chapter XII: The Barbarism Of "Specialisation", 1925.

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• Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.

  Richard G. Scott

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Weakness

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• Will now allow Reno to claim she is doing a vigorous investigation of campaign financing, when in reality Judicial Watch's public depositions show she is not. Not even John Huang's secretary has been questioned by Justice investigators nor has any other Commerce official. Commerce is at the center of the Clinton Administration's illegal fund-raising. In short, the plea agreements are sadly predictable.

  Larry Klayman

  Reality, Agreement, Justice

  "Two Democratic Fund-Raisers Charged In Campaign Money Probe" by Terry Frieden, www.cnn.com.

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• The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.

  Claude Bernard

  Facts, Torment

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• In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.'

  William Safire

  Order, Judging, Style

  "Essay; Seizing Dictatorial Power" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. November 15, 2001.

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• If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Want, Way

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• [W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions.

  Karl Mannheim

  Discipline, Hens, Defense

  Karl Mannheim (1936). “Ideology and utopia: an introduction to the sociology of knowledge”

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• As a full-time, and serious-minded, UFO investigator, I strongly side with the proponents. It seems indisputable that the phenomenon is real, and that it falls outside the scope of "normal" human experience.

  Peter Davenport

  Real, Fall, Sides

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• Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the "name" of a thing.

  Havelock Ellis

  Children, Science, Names

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Oxymoron, Posts, Reporters

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• Dan Moldea, the lead investigator for Larry Flynt's ongoing quest to uncover sexual indiscretions of Republican congressional members, has now admitted he was hired by the law firm defending President Clinton.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Humor, Law

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• Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

  Jessica Mitford

  Wall, Would Be, Prison

  Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Vintage

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• Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Men, Mind, Analysis

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1966). “Essential works”

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• In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science, with considering man as another part of nature and with ignoring the fact that he, the investigator, is himself a man and experiences this humanity in his inner experience in a way that he simply cannot experience any part of nature.

  Martin Buber

  Philosophical, Men, Humanity

  Martin Buber, S. N. Eisenstadt (1992). “On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity”, p.34, University of Chicago Press

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• The main efforts of investigators have been in papering over contradictions in the big bang theory, to build up an idea which has become ever more complex and cumbersome.

  Fred Hoyle

  Ideas, Effort, Bangs

  "The Intelligent Universe". Book by Fred Hoyle, 1983.

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• Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience ... it's just chance that I happened to be here at this particular time when there was available and at my disposal the great experience of all the investigators who plodded along for a number of years.

  Jonas Salk

  Years, Numbers, Information

  "Breakthrough: The Saga of Jonas Salk". Book by Richard Carter, 1966.

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• The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.

  Ellen Willis

  War, Kids, Jail

  Ellen Willis (2012). “No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays”, p.250, U of Minnesota Press

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• Fox News has learned some United States investigators believe that there are Israelis again very much engaged in spying in and on the United States, who may have known things they didn't tell us before September 11, 2001.

  Brit Hume

  Believe, September 11, United States

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• Preach My Gospel missionaries act in faith and are guided by the Spirit to help investigators learn truth. Please always remember Him, be worthy to represent Him, treasure up His word, allow the Holy Ghost to witness all truth, and observe, listen, and discern as you testify of Jesus Christ to honest seekers of truth.

  David A. Bednar

  Jesus, Treasure, Spirit

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• Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great many minds, is always of more strength, than what is produced by the mere workings of any one mind, which, of itself, can do very little. There is not so poor a book in the world that would not be a prodigious effort were it wrought out entirely by a single mind, without the aid of prior investigators.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Discovery

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.526

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