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• Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of the past, yet one capable of healing against all odds. An engrossing yet succinct film that captures not only a major incident in Vietnamese American life, but also an important chapter of American history. A profound film that manages to confront us with the deepest sorrow while allowing us to be hopeful about what it means to be human.

  Nguyen Qui Duc

  War, Healing, Mean

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• A judge said that all his experience, both as counsel and judge, had been spent sorting out the difficulties of people who, upon the recommendation of people they did not know, signed documents which they did not read, to buy goods they did not need, with money they had not got.

  Gilbert Harding

  People, Judging, Needs

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• It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, 'God, I just don't know anymore. If you're out there, I'm giving it all to you.' From there, after the surrender, he is allowing God himself, rather than theories, books, and documents, to take over and lead him into all truth.

  Criss Jami

  Philosophy, Book, Hands

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.9, Criss Jami

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• Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places.

  Criss Jami

  Names, Energy, Paper

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.65, Criss Jami

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• All the money was spent for the 'Concept Plan' document, which made reasonable recommendations for developments. Now that's kind of being forgotten. That's why I think the public trust is being betrayed.

  Stephen F. Hayes

  Betrayal, Thinking, Development

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• The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Rights, Ideas, Bills

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• The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

  Bernie Sanders

  Views, Constitution, Should

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.

  Ben Mezrich

  Writing, Style, Trying

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• Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that could change with time, and would be different from one copy to the next.

  Christian Marclay

  Next, Different, Would Be

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• There's a story about how the program is organized, there's a story about the context in which the program is expected to operate. And one would hope that there will be something about the program, whether it's block comments at the start of each routine or an overview document that comes separately or just choices of variable names that will somehow convey those stories to you.

  Guy Steele

  Block, Names, Choices

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• My favorite type of photography - apart from fashion photography - is journalism, which in a way documents something that exists in a very precise moment, that didnt exist in a moment before and will not exist ever again. This has influenced my work a lot - I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.

  Mario Testino

  Photography, Fashion, Effort

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• I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Understanding, Language, Computer

  "Google's Ray Kurzweil on the quest to live forever". Interview with Kate Lunau, www.macleans.ca. October 14, 2013.

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• For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.

  Andre Kertesz

  Photography, Memories, Careers

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• Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Art, Style

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• The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

  James Anthony Froude

  Ciphers, Lines, Morality

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.6, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• If you call yourself an American that means that you have embraced the constitution, because that is what an American is. A citizen of the United States of America is someone who has sworn an oath of allegiance to that document, to the words, to the ideals of that document. Right now we have citizens who don't even understand what that document is.

  Scott Ritter

  Mean, America, United States

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• You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book. I'm talking, of course, of the DNA in your cells.

  Richard Dawkins

  Book, Dna, Cells

  "Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder". Richard Dimbleby Lecture on BBC1 Television, www.edge.org. November 12, 1996.

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• The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

  Henry James

  Liberty, Use, Want

  The Aspern Papers preface (1909)

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• People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am basically an honest person, so I let the camera capture whatever it captures whether you believe it or not is up to you; it’s not my responsibility, blame my camera, not me.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Believe, Reading

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• Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Law, Justice, Confusing

  "The Windup Girl". Book by Paolo Bacigalupi, September 1, 2009.

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• Successful knowledge transfer involves neither computers nor documents but rather interactions between people.

  Thomas H. Davenport

  Successful, People, Computer

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• To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Art, Mean

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• Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no one who was present at the events, and composed for the most part by unknown authors in the Greek language that Jesus never spoke, it is held up as the only true record of the Christ story.

  Leonard Shlain

  Jesus, Years, Greek

  Leonard Shlain (1999). “The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image”, p.233, Penguin

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• Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.

  Chaz Brenchley

  Regret, Real, Rain

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• The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as much more than interesting historical documents from centuries past. But read in aggregate, all that pain piles up. Essentially, Elder has amassed a collection of what people say when they know they are going to die, the final product of what could be seen as psychological torture.

  Jonathan Messinger

  Pain, Past, Men

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