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• If Christianity cannot present evidence that the soul is immortal, then they have nothing to offer the masses, eternity in heaven with God or hold over their heads suffering forever in hell. They need the immortality of the soul. I did my research, it's not in the Bible, so what do they do? They relied on Judaism, which has always believed in the immortality of the soul. I start checking on that and I look in the Judaica Encyclopedia and what do I find? Their remark that Judaism probably got the immortality of the soul from the Greeks, so I go back further, where it all started with Plato.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Plato, Forever, Heaven

  Fuente: www.cyinterview.com

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• Oddly, since by now I've written quite a lot on early modern philosophers, I didn't care for the history of philosophy, which I thought dull and obscure, until I got a minor job writing articles for a children's encyclopedia in the history of science and began to make connections between science and philosophy.

  Catherine Wilson

  Jobs, Children, Philosophy

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Illustration, Becoming

  "Collected Fictions" by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley, 1998.

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• Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,' and somebody else says, 'Why bother? He's probably home reading the Encyclopedia Britannica.'

  Paul Desmond

  New York, Reading, Home

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• Cuando tenía 8 años, hice mi propia enciclopedia de la biografía americana: Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, mi panteón de héroes favoritos. Luego escribía mis propias cosas y las cosía para intentar hacer mi propio libro.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Libro, Héroe, Escritura

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• When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out of vanity, or you tend to be indiscriminate about it. I mean, in the old days, it was tricky, you had to go to various encyclopedias, you had to go to the library, maybe spend a day there, whatever. But in the end, if you found something, it was really exciting. Now you hit a couple of buttons and you get some information. Which, by the way, is almost always presented in that same goddamn mediocre style that characterizes the Internet for me. It is slightly deadening.

  Norman Mailer

  Couple, Mean, Vanity

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• [The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Science, Library, Multimedia

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• I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Song, Rap, Writing

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• I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

  Charlize Theron

  Travel, Reading, Looks

  "My adopted baby is great…I never knew I could live on 4hrs sleep" by Grant Rollings, www.thesun.co.uk. May 15, 2012.

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• People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.

  Jimmy Wales

  Hate, Ideas, Issues

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• The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

  Alberto Manguel

  Library, World, Universal

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• A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books---the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.

  E. B. White

  Rain, Book, Thinking

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• A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Men, Egypt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.10

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• When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back, and I'd say, "Oh, those folks got kids. They need some books." I'd knock on their door and sell them a set of encyclopedias, and those books were from $300 to $600. I'd look around the house, and if there wasn't that much furniture in the house, I felt a little bad about selling a $600 set of books to people who couldn't afford a couch. So I didn't last at that job very long.

  Willie Nelson

  Empleo, Libro, Niños

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2015.

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• I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Mirrors, Discovery, Conjunctions

  Jorge Luis Borges (1962). “Ficciones”, p.17, Grove Press

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• No hay error tan monstruoso que no encuentre defensores entre los hombres más capaces. Imaginemos un congreso de eminentes personalidades, como Moro, Bacon, Grocio, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleón, Pitt, etc. El resultado sería una Enciclopedia del Error.

  Lord Acton

  Men, Errors, Etc

  "Cartas de Lord Acton a Mary Gladstone". Libro de John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1913.

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• Cuando los escritores se sienten acomplejados de sí mismos como escritores, a menudo mantienen una gran distancia con sus personajes, como si estuvieran escribiendo entradas de enciclopedia en lugar de historias. Sus dudas sobre la intimidad física y psicológica pueden ser un obstáculo para una ficción vital. Por el contrario, una narración que hace que los lectores oigan la respiración agitada de los personajes y huelan su angustia emocional disminuye la distancia. Los lectores se sienten tan cerca de los personajes que, en esos momentos mágicos, se convierten en ellos.

  Jerome Stern

  Distance, Character, Writing

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• When I was about ten my favourite article in the huge and mouldering Encyclopedia Britannica we owned (the ninth edition) was the one on Lycanthropy. (Yes, I had a favourite 1890s Britannica article when I was ten. I am now aware this is not entirely usual.)

  Neil Gaiman

  Encyclopedia Britannica, Usual, Favourite

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• A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.

  Oliver Herford

  Doe, Pests, Persons

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• I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

  Jimmy Wales

  Reading, Kind, Approach

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.

  LeBron James

  Book, Parenthood

  "NBA Finalists Stephen Curry and LeBron James Share What They've Learned About Fatherhood" by Joi-Marie Mckenzie, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2016.

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• La mayor parte de mi biblioteca está formada por libros sobre la fe católica: historias de conversión, libros sobre santos y los primeros Padres de la Iglesia, apariciones de María, libros de oraciones, libros de recursos bíblicos sobre apologética, tipología, concordancias, diccionarios bíblicos, enciclopedias bíblicas y al menos 40 biblias, tanto católicas como protestantes, en varias traducciones diferentes.

  Gail Buckley

  Oración, Padre, Libro

  Fuente: www.patheos.com

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• The first art in caves were really psychedelic experiences, and the reason that they were is because the tribal encyclopedia, the amount of information that people needed to know in order to move to a new way of life, suddenly increased over that period of time.

  Howard Rheingold

  Art, Moving, Order

  Fuente: medium.com

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• Haz una prueba. Dale a un niño de 5 años un libro impreso y un iPad y mira a ver qué pasa. Ese niño de 5 años irá directo al iPad. No les intimida. Saben qué hacer con él. Empezarán a buscar. Y en un libro electrónico para niños, puedes tener enlaces a enciclopedias seguras para niños. Si hacen clic en el león, les lleva a África y les cuenta todo sobre los leones. Ahora el libro electrónico es educativo.

  Dan Poynter

  Running, Children, Educational

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Jóvenes cocineros, chefs famosos, cocineros caseros y todos los amantes de la cocina y la gastronomía confían en Larousse Gastronomique. Es la única enciclopedia culinaria siempre actualizada.

  Daniel Boulud

  Home, Cooking, Chef

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