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Quotes About Documentation

Having access to mobile phones and being able to document your own life brings people together.
~ Robyn
The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.
~ Henry Louis Gates
Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.
~ John Mason Brown
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.
~ Simon Schama
They spend a quarter of their lives writing things down, a quarter finding what other people have written down, a quarter hiding what was written down, and a quarter making sure if it should have been written down and wasn't, it is now.:
~ Mercedes Lackey
The reality is for 50 years in this country, federal law has required people that are illegal - or that are immigrants - or that are legal immigrants to this country to carry documentation to that effect. And that has been the law for 50 years.
~ Trent Franks
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~ Sue Monk Kidd
REMEMBER When writing up your mental status exam, whenever possible, document your observations with the client's own words.
~ Susan Lukas
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
~ Susan Sontag
La cámara transforma a cualquiera en turista de la realidad de otras personas, y a la larga de la propia.
~ Susan Sontag
Sólo si queda escrito que existimos, lo que hicimos y en qué creíamos, nuestra historia no será olvidada.
~ Julia Navarro
Innovative cultures transparently document spending, admit mistakes, and ask how they can do better.
~ Joe Lonsdale
And hey Mr. CopAin't got no birth certificate on me now
~ Bob Marley
Writing nonfiction, you're responsible to posterity, to history, to other people because the events happened, and you feel responsible to record them as they happened.
~ Peter Heller
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.
~ Simon Schama
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
~ A. Whitney Brown
I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.
~ David Rockefeller
All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me.
~ Philip Gibbs
Very good records exist about the Trail of Tears. Journals and other records kept by Cherokees and non-Indians tell such things as which people were where on which day.
~ Joseph Bruchac
If you make any trades during the year, keep a record of each transaction for at least three years.
~ Suze Orman
Change is an internal thing. Different things happen or transform, and music and art is a documentation of that.
~ Matisyahu
Formerly man had only a body and a soul. Now he needs a passport as well for without it he will not be treated like a human being.
~ Stefan Zweig
The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.
~ Allan Sekula
passport indicates he lived there before coming to the United States." "I
~ Michael Connelly