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• I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.

  Bobby Darin

  Parent, Married, Sandy

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• Documents create a paper reality we call proof.

  Mason Cooley

  Reality, Paper, Proof

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• I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

  Diablo Cody

  Blank, Screenplays

  "The WD Interview: Diablo Cody". Interview with Chad Gervich, www.writersdigest.com. June 24, 2008.

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• 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 A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.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

  Country, Police, Historical

  "Khomeini's Ghost" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2009.

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• I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Land, Constitution Of The United States, Sacred

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.

  Julian Assange

  War, Civilization, Serious

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

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• I think there are two types of photographers, those who want to document the world and those who want to create their own world. I am more interested in documenting the world and presenting it to people with the question attached, 'Does this make any sense to you?'

  Moby

  Thinking, Two, People

  "Destroyed: Moby". Interview With Amah-Rose McKnight-Abrams, www.dazeddigital.com. May 30, 2011.

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• When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Country, Used, Bangladesh

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• Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.

  Chuck Norris

  People, Constitution, Interpreting

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• I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Thinking, People, Want

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• What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

  Walter Scott

  Women, Diaries, Treasure

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• My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!

  Stacy Schiff

  Girl, Book, Witch Trials

  "Stacy Schiff, author of 'Cleopatra: A Life,' on the perfect biography subject". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com.

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• The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.

  Dan Savage

  War, Slave Owners, Slavery

  "Dan Savage Under Fire After Challenging Bible Talk" by Michelle Garcia, www.advocate.com. April 29, 2012.

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• Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

  Jose Saramago

  Two, World, November

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• 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

  Thinking, Government, Vision

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• 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 - principles that recognize that because all of us are equal in the eyes of our creator, all life is sacred at every stage of life.

  Marco Rubio

  Rights, Government, Principles

  Speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Book, Writing

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• The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Jesus, America

  Pat Robertson (1994). “The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1”, Bristol Park Books

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• I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

  Samantha Power

  Missing, Constitution, Happens

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• America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

  John Podhoretz

  Team, Rights, America

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• The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

  Martha Plimpton

  Equality, Too Much, Way

  Twitter post from Mar 5, 2012

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• People say if bees die out, the world would end apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document and people believe this.

  Karl Pilkington

  Believe, Writing, People

  "Karl Pilkington On 'An Idiot Abroad,' Endangered Animals & Ricky Gervais (VIDEO)". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

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• We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.

  Goran Persson

  Thinking, Kyoto Protocol, Substance

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• Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

  Mike Pence

  People, Priorities, Majority

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

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• The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Constitution, Governing, American Constitution

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