"Language is the archives of history." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs'… — Halle Berry
• If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a… — Noam Chomsky
• You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The… — Hsu Yun
• If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man… — James Madison
• In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the… — James Clerk Maxwell
• I've making videos since I was seventeen I was originally discollecting vintage hmmm... footages from different archives and setting moving… — Lana Del Rey
• We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it… — Jean-Andre Deluc
• Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it… — Caroline Myss
• Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers… — Thurgood Marshall
• Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they've studied the tapes of the old… — Gene Kelly
• There’s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That’s the fascination of archives. There’s still a… — Susan Howe
• Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are… — Annie Leibovitz

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