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The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.


Jack Layton


#criminal #department #government #investigation #minister

Art is an investigation.


Twyla Tharp


#investigation

Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and then to solve the puzzle, to make it go away. 'The detective story,' observed Raymond Chandler in 1949, 'is a tragedy with a happy ending.' A storybook detective starts by confronting us with a murder and ends by absolving us of it. He clears us of guilt. He relieves us of uncertainty. He removes us from the presence of death.


Kate Summerscale


#crime #detective-stories #detectives #investigations #mysteries

The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.


Victor Francis Hess


#cosmic #cosmic rays #effects #great #interest

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.


Ambrose Bierce


#bent #cherished #danger #denial #doubt

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


Saxby Chambliss


#criminal #function #investigations

If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.


Richard Dawkins


#door #ever #face #investigation #like

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.


Mao Zedong


#day #indeed #investigate #investigation #likened

Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.


John Ensign


#american #american taxpayer #cooperate #corruption #decides

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.


Phillip E. Johnson


#advantage #assumes #because #claimed #equivalent






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