#encyclopedia

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. ↗

— Yogi Berra

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My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

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Rape culture is a concept of unknown origin and of uncertain definition; yet it has made its way into everyday vocabulary and is assumed to be commonly understood. The award-winning documentary film Rape Culture made by Margaret Lazarus in 1975 takes credit for first defining the concept ↗

— Joyce E. Williams

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I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is. ↗

— Mario Batali

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Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

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