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Our soldiers did not go to some foreign country and risk their lives in vain and defend our Constitution so that decades later you can tell me it's a living document ever changing and is open to interpretation. The guys who wrote it were light years ahead of anyone today, and they meant what they said - now leave the document alone, or there's going to be trouble.

Ted Nugent

Country, Light, Years

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Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.

John Paul Caponigro

Photographer, Tempted, Direct

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Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context and supplemental information to confirm our observations, not simply the documents themselves.

John Paul Caponigro

Littles, Information, Photographer

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Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly, but deal with content; be a formalist exploration; and operate on some, metaphor is not the right word but, resonant level.

Stephen Shore

Art, Mean, Levels

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An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.

Robert E Lane

Hero, People, Atheism

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And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at that, it really was their own little jihad that they had going. It just wasn't taken very seriously then.

Patty Hearst

Taken, Littles, Looks

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What state surveillance actually is is best understood by the NSA's own documents and own words, which I think as you know I happen to have a lot of.

Glenn Greenwald

Thinking, Nsa, Surveillance

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Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth.

Thomas Aquinas

Children, Pride, Errors

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We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. No other objective facts have been presented in recent time. The IPCC's reports in 1990 and 1995 show it clearly.

Andrey Illarionov

Kyoto Protocol, Political, Climate

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The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Democracy, Sacred, Constitution

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The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic.

Woodrow Wilson

Age, Lasts, United States

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By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South Platte River: algae, broken concrete, jet contrails, the smell of crude oil. What I hope to document, though not at the expense of surface detail, is the form that underlies this apparent chaos.

Robert Adam

Dog, Oil, Rivers

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Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.

Ursula Burns

Process, Xerox

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Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons.

John French Sloan

Thinking, Talking, Drawing

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In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.

Abraham Lincoln

Hate, World, Down And

Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.465, Wildside Press LLC

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In America, one of the great liberal documents of the world is the Declaration of Independence. One of the great conservative documents of the world is the Constitution of the United States. We need both documents to build a country. One to get it started - liberal. And the other to help maintain the structure over the years - conservative.

Jim Rohn

Country, Years, America

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 09, 2015

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The TV Tropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document.

Jeph Jacques

Html, Pages, Tvs

Call Out Boy‏ @jephjacques, twitter.com. September 4, 2009.

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It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility is to reveal consciousness; to produce a human document.

Squeak Carnwath

Art, Jobs, Responsibility

Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”

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Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come.

Fran Lebowitz

Teenager, Believe, Blessed

Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.224, Vintage

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I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he 'uncovers' it.

Berenice Abbott

Doe, Photographer, Agree

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In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among the documents and said to myself, I can't improve on these.

Alfred Doblin

Book, Writing, Objectivity

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Sweet death, small son, our instrument
Of immortality,
Your cries and hungers document
Our bodily decay.

Donald Hall

Sweet, Son, Decay

Donald Hall (1990). “Old and New Poems”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Unlike other countries, it was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open to revisions. They're works in progress. There's an invitation to participate.

Christopher Hitchens

Country, America, Progress

Source: www.usatoday.com

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I want to clarify it: I'm not against marriage, marriage is great if you want to get married. A lot of my friends are happily married. I don't think walking down the aisle and [having] a legal document can make a difference. That doesn't mean you love someone more or you respect them more - you can be with someone perfectly well without being married.

Enrique Iglesias

Mean, Thinking, Differences

"Enrique Iglesias: 'I’m Not a Heartthrob!'". Interview with Ian Drew, www.usmagazine.com. July 12, 2010.

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I always knew that I had to direct. That was something I'd wanted to do. Finally, I was just looking at the situation and I said, "I wanna document hip-hop, as an art form, seeing how a lot of people don't take it seriously."

Ice T

Art, People, Hip Hop

Source: collider.com

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