Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been translated down through the generations, and more mistakes have accumulated. So the longer the lineage has been in existence, the more mistakes the sequence is going to have.
I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.
Saying the Constitution is a living document is the same as saying we don't have a Constitution.
When you live in the country or the state it's important to remember that you must be objective. Personal feelings must be put aside - you are there to document and tell the story and come back safely.
I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he 'uncovers' it.
I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes.
Don't document bad code - rewrite it.
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither.
Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is not what the paleontologist finds. Instead, he or she finds gaps in just about every phyletic series.
Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.
Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.
Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.
Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.
When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.
Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.
Since Vice President Al Gore is constantly making things up, it should come as no surprise that he wants Supreme Court justices who will do the same. As Gore put it, he will appoint judges who view the Constitution as a 'document that grows'.
The Constitution is a radical document. . . it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.
Document, evaluate, focus, test.
The New Testament is not a historical document.
I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document; I don't really believe in it, particularly now. A picture's not the world, but a new thing.
