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  • The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
  • The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

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  • George Bernard Shaw The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Paula Nelson The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the ''who, what, where, why, and how much... ''
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  • Henry James The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bruce Jackson Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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