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Quotes About Investigation

because I want to discover where, precisely, it may be wrong and, if possible, to repair the defect.
~ Donald D. Hoffman
Science is not a theory of reality, but a method of inquiry.
~ Donald D. Hoffman
This could blow up in everybody's faces, this could be worse than Watergate, worse than Iran-Contra, worse than the little blue dress.
~ Donald E. Westlake
I Googled it all." Dortmunder had heard of this; some other nosey parker way to mind everybody else's business.
~ Donald E. Westlake
The case called for plain, old-fashioned police leg work!
~ Donald J. Sobol
Have you got an idea about this case, Leroy?" "No," mumbled Encyclopedia. Mrs. Brown looked hurt. She had come to expect her son to solve a case before dessert.
~ Donald J. Sobol
Donald J. Sobol
~ longer than an
Once again the historian who wishes to understand this difficult period must try to read between the lines. It
~ Donald Kagan
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.
~ Neil Simon
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
~ William Lyon Phelps
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
~ Richard P. Feynman
Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.
~ Dan Rather
Also, I figure while I'm here, I might as well get to know it, you know—see what there is to see.
~ Jennifer Niven
know, you'll say anything is possible. But don't you think the polis would have been all over him? There'd have been search parties and petitions and pictures on lamp-posts and appeals and T-shirts and so on and so forth? A beautiful young mother disappears?' 'Mrs Murray reckons it was hushed up.' 'Mrs Murray reckons 9/11 was done by lizards.
~ Jenny Colgan
Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.
~ Jeremy Narby
All things considered, wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.
~ Jeremy Narby
Bert, whenever you see something bright, shining, perfect-seeming - all gold, with purple spots - look behind the paint! And if it's a lie - show it up for what it really is!
~ Jerome Lawrence
Attack on Terror: The FBI Versus the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi.
~ Jerry Mitchell
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~ Jerry Pournelle
When you look for a conspiracy, look for the violation of Standard Operating Procedures.
~ Jesse Ventura
I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.
~ Jessica Biel
Jessica Fletcher
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We don't have many murders here in Cabot Cove.
~ Jessica Fletcher