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“All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game being the discovery of the totally unexpected.”

Quote by Hugh Nibley

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Hugh Nibley
Hugh Nibley

English biography, 120-180 words more

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