Memorable Quotes About Documents

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"The invention of printing, though ingenious, compared with the invention of letters, is no great matter."
Thomas Carlyle
"Get it in writing."
Traditional Proverb
"The historian must not be afraid to examine even the most loathsome aspects of the past."
Doris Kearns Goodwin
"The historian looks backward; eventually he believes backward."
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"A document is like a parachute. If it is not open when you need it, it is of little use."
Arthur Bloch
"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."
Oscar Wilde
"The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then don't grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life."
Robert Louis Stevenson
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"The pen is mightier than the sword."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood."
Freeman Teague Jr.
"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider."
Francis Bacon
"Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self."
Damian Conway
"The details are not the details. They make the design."
Charles Eames
"Good writing is good writing, no matter what form it takes."
Stephen King
"The most valuable things are not always the things we possess. They are the bonds of family and friendship, the sense of community, and the knowledge that we are a part of something bigger than ourselves."
Harry S. Truman
"If you cannot explain something simply, you don't understand it well enough."
Albert Einstein
"The only thing that is constant is change."
Heraclitus
"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever."
Samuel Smiles
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
Peter Drucker
"Documentation is like insurance: you hate paying for it until you need it."
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"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a fine and searching scrutiny."
William F. Buckley Jr.
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"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still, small voice of conscience."
Mahatma Gandhi
"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."
Anatole France
"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power."
Honoré de Balzac
"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
J. Robert Oppenheimer

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