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• The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.

  Hugh Nibley

  Book

  Hugh W. Nibley (2014). “NIbley Commentary of the Book of Mormon Volume 1: Commentary of the Book of Mormon”, p.17, Sharman B Hummel

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• Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly, I’ve always said and I stand by it, whenever I do do a printed encyclopedia I would like all the proceeds to go to charity. Back in 1998 I never dreamt I personally I would be in the position that I could set up a large charitable foundation and personally do things for charity, and I’ve done other charity books already.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Two, Would Be

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• I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of our apartment, there was blood from some guy who got shot; but inside, there was National Geographic magazines and encyclopedias and a little library bookshelf situation.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Blood, Guy, Drug

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• You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Past, Order, Years

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• I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

  George R. R. Martin

  Looks, Flags, Ships

  "Fantasy Author George R.R. Martin: Blood of Bayonne". Interview with Joanna Buffum and Dylan Runco, njmonthly.com. March 15, 2013.

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• My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

  Mike Myers

  Mom, Dad, Office

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• To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.

  Jimmy Wales

  Who I Am, Goal, Quality

  "Wikipedia isn't about human potential, whatever Wales says" by Seth Finkelstein, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2008.

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• What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.

  E. O. Wilson

  Needs, Pages, Given

  Interview with Richard Conniff, discovermagazine.com. June 25, 2006.

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• Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Book, Stupidity, Curiosity

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• Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Looks, Certitude

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• Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.

  Italo Calvino

  Book, Style, Library

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• The tremendous Jeremy Latcham from Marvel showed up with this one-of-a-kind animated encyclopedia about S.H.I.E.L.D. and The Avengers. Coulson wasn't a part of the comic books, which is a singular thing about him that I thought would get me killed off very quickly, but luckily, it didn't. It just became a thing that I fit into, and they kept finding new and better uses for me.

  Clark Gregg

  Book, Use, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• William Ferris has long reigned as the unimpeachable source of the entire southern experience. His work on southern folklore and the composition of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture have made him both legendary and necessary. His book, The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It's a crowning achievement of his own storied career.

  Pat Conroy

  Song, Book, Careers

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• The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Church, Cult

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• It's a big mistake when encyclopedias say "loyal" - this dog, this breed has this ability to be loyal, to be a one person dog. I don't agree with that. I think all dogs are honest, all dogs have integrity, all dogs are loyal and they're all capable of loving you. It doesn't come from the breed. It comes from the dog.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Integrity, Mistake

  Interview with David Morris, www.askmen.com. February 27, 2015.

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• When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a romance novel or an encyclopedia. Your sensibility will out.

  Matthea Harvey

  Voice, Romance, Way

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Hoffmeier furnishes a sophisticated fresh approach to the Biblical Exodus traditions filled with detailed Egyptological background, and utterly indispensable because of its basis in recent, and in many cases as yet unpublished, archaeological data. This is a virtual encyclopedia of the Exodus.

  Baruch Halpern

  Biblical, Data, Tradition

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• Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance.

  Robert Kirshner

  Ignorance, Flames, Burning

  Robert P. Kirshner (2016). “The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos”, p.14, Princeton University Press

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• I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Mother, Father, Writing

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.40, Penguin

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• Are you okay?" she whispers, giggling. Me? Oh sure. You might have to carry me out of here, though." What happened?" I created a distraction." I gathered that." Step stool, encyclopedias, floor." I see. Well, I can't thank you enough." Sure you can. Help me flunk enough tests, so I drop out of the 'torian range." Can't you just tell Abernethy that you have a reputation as a dumbshit to keep up, and you don't want the attention?" Flunking is more fun.

  Lisa McMann

  Fun, Steps, Attention

  "Fade". Book by Lisa McMann, 2009.

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• Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms.

  Douglas Adams

  Alcohol, Sugar, Liquid

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• My fashion is my most prized possession for two reasons: 1) because it is a visualization of all the hard work I've put in to get where I am today; 2) because it is a legend to the encyclopedia of my life. It is exactly what I've aimed to seep into the artistic consciousness of people all over the world - that life is an art form.

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Art, Hard Work

  "Lady Gaga On Love and Lies". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."

  Greg Ray

  Latin, Mean, Term Paper

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• Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.

  Tom Rachman

  Love Life, Ambition, Men

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• Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Divorce, Expression, Stories

  Gabrielle Roth, John Loudon (1998). “Maps to Ecstasy: A Healing Journey for the Untamed Spirit”, p.29, New World Library

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