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Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle (inferred)
“I am a great believer in Sherlock Holmes”
“I am a great believer in Sherlock Holmes as a teaching system for intelligence and rationality and logic in thinking. I read those stories a million times when I was a kid”— Irving Finkel
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The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
University of Chicago Oriental Institute (inferred)
“the most salient and important thing that came out of America in all its history”
“It's the most salient and important thing that came out of America in all its history, is the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary”— Irving Finkel
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Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford University Press (inferred)
“I have a whole set. I love them.”
“Have you ever in your life opened a full-size volume of the Oxford English Dictionary? It's about that thick. I have a whole set. I love them.”— Irving Finkel
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Egyptian Grammar
Alan Gardiner
“for about three years beforehand I'd wanted to be an Egyptologist. So I read the grammar by Gardiner and was looking forward very much to study ancient Egyptian”— Irving Finkel
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Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous (inferred)
“you did briefly mention Epic of Gilgamesh. So that was written in cuneiform. It's one of the earliest works of literature.”— Lex Fridman
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Dr. Strangelove
Stanley Kubrick (inferred)
“when he's talking about the bomb and all that, and devices, and international trouble, it's so unchanged. And same with Dr. Strangelove.”— Irving Finkel
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