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There is a whole set of environmental engineering literature on drinking-water-distribution systems getting clogged by manganese oxides, but how and for what reason such material is generated there has remained an enigma. Clearly, many scientists have considered that bacteria using manganese for energy might be responsible, but evidence supporting this idea was not available until now. – Jared Leadbetter	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Kids with the most severe special needs are an enigma, they have the highest need for round-the-clock care, yet the lowest chance of finding forever families. – Olivia Raney	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This manuscript dates from the time when Turing was engaged in the crucial task of breaking the Enigma Code, its mathematical content gives an extraordinary insight into the working mind of one of the greatest luminaries of the 20th Century. – Cassandra Hatton	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The [chemical] reactions in which diamonds occur still remain an enigma. – Larry Taylor	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. – Joseph Joubert	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. – Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1939	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. – Umberto Eco	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. – Edgar Allan Poe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago

There is a whole set of environmental engineering literature on drinking-water-distribution systems getting clogged by manganese oxides, but how and for what reason such material is generated there has remained an enigma. Clearly, many scientists have considered that bacteria using manganese for energy might be responsible, but evidence supporting this idea was not available until now.

– Jared Leadbetter

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Kids with the most severe special needs are an enigma, they have the highest need for round-the-clock care, yet the lowest chance of finding forever families.

– Olivia Raney

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This manuscript dates from the time when Turing was engaged in the crucial task of breaking the Enigma Code, its mathematical content gives an extraordinary insight into the working mind of one of the greatest luminaries of the 20th Century.

– Cassandra Hatton

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The [chemical] reactions in which diamonds occur still remain an enigma.

– Larry Taylor

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

– Joseph Joubert

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

– Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1939

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

– Umberto Eco

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

– Edgar Allan Poe

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

– Winston Churchill

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

– Winston Churchill

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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