Dan Brown quote: "I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping."

I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and c...
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It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just...
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptic...
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My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve ...
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I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, ...
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormou...
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction,...
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don&...
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart ...
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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely ...
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cann...
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imagi...
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I love the gray area between right and wrong.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tensio...
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Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to t...
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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still f...
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Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and vill...
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the is...
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I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book ...
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Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
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Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.
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Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.
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History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the...
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Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
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Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.
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God's will is your deepest desires.
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Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.'
'I understand th...
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For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,'...
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well ben...
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Everyone loves a conspiracy.
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He had been haunted his whole life by a mild
case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhoo...
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These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that histo...
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Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.
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She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying...
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ...
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Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture -...
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some fe...
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God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.
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emotionless tone hurting as much as the news
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That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we can...
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Su contacto tenía una fuerza tierna y los dedos de ambos se entrelazaron con tanta naturalidad que ...
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so ...
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Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connecte...
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When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.
The gray area between...
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Forgiveness is God's greatest gift
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The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. T...
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Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive ...
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The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.
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Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.
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Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I...
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I see no truth whatsoever in stories of extraterrestrial visitors, crop circles, the Bermuda Triangl...
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Let the biblical scholars and historians battle it out.
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My - well, I'm very fortunate. I married an art historian who, you know, with whom I travel, and we ...
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I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcis...
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I’m sure you despise me,” she sobbed, looking up at him through tearful eyes.

“Desp...
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The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too muc...
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sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler
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Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.
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Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.
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stand tall, smile bright, and let them wonder what secrets making you laugh!
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Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.
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Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we...
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Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.
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Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In ...
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If you have wind, rain or flood damage to your home or business, we are not going to energize transf...
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Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.
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Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in ...
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God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.
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Today is today. But there are many tomorrows
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Learning the truth has become my life's love.
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Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?
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What really matters is what you believe.
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That is the clear piece of evidence to me that Holy Blood, Holy Grail was not around when I wrote th...
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Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesu...
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Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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That was a pretty good offensive game for us. Defensively, we were asleep most of the night. It seem...
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It's important in a situation like this to keep everybody positive. I've told the kids that things l...
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Both Rick and Bryan played enough to letter last year. Both have played well at times, but lack cons...
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This rapid and unanimous verdict confirms, once again, that this claim never had any merit.
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This benefit amounts to $1 million in expense over time. It's a large amount of money.
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I cannot possibly tell you the precise date I learned that Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute.
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Over the past 10 years I have placed in my novels the names of more than two dozen close friends and...
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I found I liked working at that hour, and though I no longer teach, I have remained faithful to that...
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For me, writing is a discipline, much like playing a musical instrument. By making writing my first ...
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I was pretty happy with the heart our girls showed.
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Little League started in West Des Moines about 1951. I played Little League at Holiday Park in 1981....
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I chose the name Langdon for a combination of reasons. The name first occurred to me as a tribute to...
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I am a novelist, not a historian. I needed to go back, so I could defend the work.
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There's a lot of stress, ... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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It's a shame we don't have a track anymore, ... It used to be full every weekend. There's a lot of p...
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I miss the racing and I really enjoy coming out to work with the guys when I can.
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This year's winner ... exemplified the spirit of cooperation as essential to getting things done.
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It was the No. 1-selling e-book on the planet. With about 12 copies.
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He could taste the familiar tang of museum air - an arid, deionized essence that carried a faint hin...
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Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the...
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This life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.
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To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a...
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When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matte...
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Life is filled with difficult decisions, and winners are those who make them.
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Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.
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When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.
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Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.
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There's just no substitute for the truth.
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She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.
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will be unavailable for interviews or appearances until the release of his next novel. No release da...
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I can...
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It does look like it poses a significant threat to Florida by the weekend. Of course, these are four...
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ...
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Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap ...
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I was nurtured in things mechanical.
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If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyed
instantly. Physicists call the proces...
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and ...
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Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic res...
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Langdon quickly explained how most people pictured satanic cults as devil-worshiping fiends, and yet...
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When the ancients discovered ‘Phi’, they were certain they had stumbled across God’s building ...
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Well, this machine is no more me than your physical brain is you. Observing your own brain in a bowl...
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Suntem creatori, dar jucăm naivi, rolul de „creație”. Ne considerăm biete oi neajutorate, mâ...
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Ce soartă va avea condiția omenească dacă marile mistere ale vieții vor fi în sfârșit elucid...
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Schimbarea este iminentă. Ființa omenească se află în pragul unei noi ere, când își va înto...
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A trăi în lume fără a deveni conștient de sensul ei este ca și când ai rătăci într-o mare ...
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Adevărul are putere. Iar dacă gravităm cu toții în jurul acelorași idei, o facem poate, întru...
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Langdon watched the phone plummet down and splash into the dark waters of the Nervión River. As it ...
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But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won'...
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges eve...
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we are partakers of the divine nature.
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although perhaps not in the most traditional sense of the word.
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I am a good person because I am a good person! God has nothing to do with it!
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I have been shocked at their reaction. Furthermore I do not really understand it.
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Time is a river, and books are boats.
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If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.'...
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O amor pertence a outro reino. Não o podemos fabricar a pedido. Nem o podemos subjugar quando apare...
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As you may know, when someone endures a horrific event like a car accident or a sexual assault, the ...
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Iactura paucourm serva multos.
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Matha Alayna ‘an naf’al?” he asked aloud. What should we do?

The boys stood in a ci...
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...I’ve learned to expect the worst from people who hold power.
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The Lord works in mysterious ways.
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One great work of art inspired by another.
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Seven Deadly Sins. Saligia is an acronym for: superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira, and a...
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Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes in around her.
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Sometimes the only choice is the lesser of two evils.
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The roads to salvation are many.
Forgiveness is not the only path.
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Anything is possible when people believe in a cause.
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You came back because you’ve been running your whole life, and you finally realized you can’t ru...
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Technically, everyone is talking to me. I’m able to partition myself quite easily. You are hearing...
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Enjoy it. One way or another, your days are numbered.
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My friends, I am not saying I know for a fact that there is no God. All I am saying is that if there...
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Seek and ye shall find.
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We are now perched on a strange cusp of history, a time when the world feels like it’s been turned...
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Never make a promise you cannot keep.
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Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triump...
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If our ancestors could see us today, surely they would think us gods.
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Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that sci...
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The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece
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I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have t...
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The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.
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Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith―acceptance of th...
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Seek the goodness, become the goodness.D
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From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole,
'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold.
The p...
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Science tells me God must exist.
My mind tells me I'll never understand God.
My heart tell...
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It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.
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But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its a...
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Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.
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One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.
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If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!
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Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. T...
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Buddha had said:
"Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hea...
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No love is greater than that of a father for His son.
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the most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears!
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Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it ...
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Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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Lieutenant Chatrand: I don’t understand this omnipotent-benevolent thing.
Camerlengo Carlo Ve...
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Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me...
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Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.
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The media is the right arm of anarchy.
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Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we don't understand.
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The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the worl...
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Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in oppos...
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TRUTH."
"Maybe there is a universal truth embedded in everyone's soul. Maybe we all have the sa...
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Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile...
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Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.
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Even brilliant scientists Google themselves.
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He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every count...
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the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths
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Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian...
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Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.
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We all fear what we do not understand.
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Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrum...
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Darkness feeds on apathy.
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Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas ar...
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Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death bef...
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Professor Langdon,' called a young man with curly hair in the back row, 'if Masonry is not a secret ...
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The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.
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Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new lig...
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Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.
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Gut?”
“General Unified Theory.” Kohler quipped. “The theory of everything.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.

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