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Quotes About Documents

One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.
~ James Buchan
The belief is more and more as we use iCloud services for documents and our photos and videos and music that perhaps the most price-conscious customers are able to live in an environment where they don't need gobs of local storage because these services are lightening the load.
~ Phil Schiller
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
~ Lord Acton
Some men are daylight readers, who peruse the ambiguous wording of clouds or the individual letter shapes of wandering birds. Some, like myself, are librarians of the night, whose ephemeral documents consist of root-inscribed bones or whatever rustles in the thickets upon solitary walks.
~ Loren Eiseley
But to a bureaucrat paper was never just paper. Paper was life!
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
To create, to hoard, to send these things, these fragile documents, down through the years, with only the hope that they would survive and reach those for whom they were intended.
~ Diana Gabaldon
You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.
~ Tony Abbott
I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government, so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God.
~ Paul Ryan
Documents were destroyed. The archives themselves were in a shocking state after the war. They'd been ransacked by the Nazis, who burned anything that contradicted their worldview. We lost countless irreplaceable manuscripts. For instance, their insistence on an Aryan race. We had document after document proving there's no such thing. It was a construct, a myth, created hundreds of years ago and resurrected by the Nazis.
~ Louise Penny
This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.
~ Allen Weinstein
Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.
~ Alain Resnais
Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.
~ Ursula Burns
Maybe there is no death as we know it. Just documents changing hands.
~ Don DeLillo
ufficio catasto
~ Donna Leon
He throws the cabin bag onto the bed. "New clothes, passport, documents. I want you in London & ready to work by the end of the week." "And what will I be doing there ?" "Terminating this shitstorm once & for all." "By which you mean ?" "Killing Eve.
~ Unknown
About the middle of the ninth century were composed the False Decretals, purporting to have been collected from the documents of early popes.
~ Unknown
Before the council closed in 1965, it issued sixteen documents—constitutions, declarations, and decrees—that made many widespread decisions about the life of the church. In an interview Reverend Theodore K. Parker observed that although Vatican II did not specifically tell Catholics to go out and participate in the civil rights movement, those who were inclined to do so might have taken inspiration from Gaudium et spes (The Pastoral Constitution on the Church
~ Unknown
Big Mother walked home from the bus station, through the rowdy twilit streets, and the novel in her bag gave her a pleasant, illusory calm, as if she were leaving a secret meeting and the documents she carried could bring down systems, countries, lies and corruption.
~ Madeleine Thien
Officials guarding the frontier between Russia and the German zone took malicious delight in harassing those wishing to pass. Since Marie and her husband were without documents and without shelter in a town completely strange to them where they knew no one, they could not stay. Nor could they return.
~ Unknown
He nodded at the big leather bags. "What's in there?" "Papers." "Papers?" "Papers." "What kind of papers?" Toilet paper, she thought. I spend my vacations traveling the Caribbean collecting toilet paper. "Legal documents, crap like that. I'm a lawyer.
~ John Grisham
English had been used since the start of the seventh century to draft administrative documents,
~ Unknown
such as charters and law codes, but never employed for great works of literature, theology or philosophy,
~ Unknown
We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26, 000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents.
~ George Pataki
There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.
~ Marco Rubio