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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names."
"Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1))
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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I figured the Nightingale Investigations job application form had the question "Are you hot? Yes. No. If you answered no, please exit the building.
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Kristen Ashley (Rock Chick Revenge (Rock Chick, #5))
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It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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Mark Twain
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I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamberpots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessible at five thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at the quarter moon - or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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Do you think Charlotte will let me handle the investigation?"
"Do you think you can be trusted in Downworld? The gaming hells, the dens of magical vice, the women of loose morals..."
Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from heaven. "Would tomorrow be to early to start looking, do you think?
Jem sighed. 'Do what you like, William. You always do.
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Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1))
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She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Macβs blood sprout from it.
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Susan Rowland (The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker #2))
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The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.
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Seneca (Natural Questions (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca))
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But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know thereβs a serpent on the back? Some say itβs a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.
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Susan Rowland (The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker #2))