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Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.
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Today is today. But there are many tomorrows
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Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.
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But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?
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the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths
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Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.
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It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist
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Love is a private thing. The world does not need to know.
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Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.
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Even brilliant scientists Google themselves.
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Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity
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Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.
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He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always shared one thing. We all had the Creator. We used different names, different faces, and different prayers, but God was the universal constant for man. God was the symbol we all shared...the symbol of all the mysteries of life that we could not understand. The ancients had praised God as a symbol of our limitless ..
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consider this. It took the earth's population thousand of years-from the early dawn of man all the way to the early 1800s-to reach one billion people. Then astoundingly, it took only about a hundred years to double the population to two billion in the 1920s. After that, it took a mere fifty years for the population to double again to four billion in the 1970s. As you can imagine, we're well on track to reach eight billion very soon. Just to..
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From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole, 'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test, Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.
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sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler
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The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.
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Life is filled with difficult decisions, and winners are those who make them.
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Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna Brooks
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Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther
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It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.
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Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I'll never understand God. My heart tells me I'm not meant to. [Vittoria Vetra]
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It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.
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When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out.
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Act first, explain later.
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Love is not a finite emotion. We don't have only so much to share.
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Force a hand, and it will fight you. But convince and mind to think as you want it to think, an you have an ally
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At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon -- the date of Easter, the role of the bishops, the administration of sacraments, and, of course, the divinity of Jesus... until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet... a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal.
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Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully.
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Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax.
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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 hell
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TRUTH." "Maybe there is a universal truth embedded in everyone's soul. Maybe we all have the same story hiding inside, like a shared constant in our DNA. Maybe this collective TRUTH is responsible for the similarity in all of our stories." "Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, mabe we do so because those ideas are true...written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel tha..
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Seek the goodness, become the goodness.D
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When they face desperation... human beings become animals.
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Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.
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The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world:
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In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.
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Love is not a finite emotion. We don't have only so much to share. Our hearts create love as we need it.
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Well, science and religion are not competitors, they're two different languages trying to tell the same story. There's room in this world for both.
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Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we don't understand.
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Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.
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And history has proven repeatedly that lunatics will rise to power again and again on tidal waves of aggressive nationalism and intolerance, even in places where it seems utterly incomprehensible.
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For the human brain," Edmond explained, "any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with 'insufficient data,' and so our brains invent the data--offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order--creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world."
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Science and religion were not enemies, but rather allies - two different languages telling the same story, a story of symmetry and balance... heaven and hell, night and day, hot and cold, God and Satan. Both science and religion rejoiced in God's symmetry... the endless contest of ight and dark.
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