"The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and……" — Alberto Manguel

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• I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my… — Mario Batali
• I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. — Yogi Berra
• In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist… — Edward de Bono
• Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not… — Unknown Author
• Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia. — Unknown Author
• People ask me all the time what or who my influences are. To be honest, it would take a decent… — Corey Taylor
• From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included.… — William James
• Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into… — Edward de Bono
• Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too. — Charles Van Doren
• Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to… — Vannevar Bush
• The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our… — Umberto Eco
• The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social… — Tracy Kidder

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