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Dr. Jacobus, I am walking out your doors right now. I need clothes. I am going to Vatican City. One does not go to Vatican City with ones ass hanging out. Do I make myself clear?
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robert-langdon
vatican-city
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To permit ignorance is to empower it.
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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 is a divine force behind the universe, it is laughing hysterically at the religions we've created in an attempt to define it.
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robert-langdon
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Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.
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Dan Brown |
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If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong.
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Dan Brown |
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The human mind has a primitive ego defince mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called denial.
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Dan Brown |
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Never forget you are a miracle
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Dan Brown |
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Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'!
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Dan Brown |
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Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.
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Dan Brown |
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To fly or not to fly, that's the question.
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Dan Brown |
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Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or comprehend.
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Dan Brown |
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Her eyes were olive green--incisive and clear.
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Dan Brown |
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genius accepts genius unconditionally
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Dan Brown |
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Love is from another realm. We cannot manufacture it on demand. Nor can we subdue it when it appears. Love is not our choice to make.
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When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.
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Dan Brown |
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It is said that in death, all things become clear.
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Dan Brown |
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Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?
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History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.
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Dan Brown |
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Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.
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For centuries the church has stood by while science picked away at religion bit by bit. Debunking miracles. Training the mind to overcome the heart. Condemning religion as the opiate of the masses. They denounce God as a hallucination - a delusional crutch for those too weak to accept that life is meaningless. I could not stand by while science presumed to harness the power of God himself! Proof, you say? Yes, proof of science's ignorance! ..
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miracles
religion
science
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From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since the beginning of time, the ignorant had always screamed the loudest, herding the unsuspecting masses and forcing them to do their bidding. They defended their worldly desires by citing Scripture they did not understand. They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now, after a..
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Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained
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Hardly. Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.
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Ah, yes" Langdon said with a knowing smile. "Who better than a bunch of celibate octogeneraians to tell the world how to have sex?" Sinskey was liking the professor more and more every second."
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Dan Brown |
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There is a fine line between insanity and genius.
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Dan Brown |
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Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.' 'I understand the concept. It's just . . . there seems to be a contradiction.' 'Yes. The contradiction is pain. Man's starvation, war, sickness . . .' 'Exactly!' Chartrand knew the camerlengo would understand. 'Terrible things happen in this world. Human tragedy seems like proof that God could not possibly be both all-powerful and well-meaning. If He loves us and..
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faith
god
omnipotence
paradox
religion
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The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
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Dan Brown |
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The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece
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dan-brown
physics
religion
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The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes."
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dan-brown
the-da-vinci-code
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You can't jump for the stars if your feet hurt.
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She saved my life...and I've ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths.
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Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.
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dan-brown
faith
religion
science
spirituality
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Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put your faith in something with tangible results. How long has it been since someone walked on water? Modern miracles belong to science.. Computers, vaccines, space stations... Even the devine miracle of creation. Matter from nothing... In a lab. Who needs God? No! Science is God!
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We are , and yet we naively play the role of "the ." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential."
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katherine-solomon
philosophy
religion
the-human-mind
thoughts
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Codes and patterns are very different from each other," Langdon said. "And a lot of people confuse the two. In my field, it's crucial to understand their fundamental difference." "That being?" Langdon stopped walking and turned to her. "A pattern is any distinctly organized sequence. Patterns occur everywhere in nature--the spiraling seeds of a sunflower, the hexagonal cells of a honeycomb, the circular ripples on a pond when a fish jumps, ..
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There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces.
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What's the matter?'' She immediately started laughin. ''What's the mattter? Everything is the matter! Rocks! Trees! Atoms! Even anteaters! Everything is the matter!
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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 upside down, and nothing is quite as we imagined. But uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear. I urge you to place your faith in the human capacity for creativity and love, because these two forces, when combined, possess the power to illuminate any darkness.
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origin
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Dan Brown |
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Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.
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pyramid
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Dan Brown |
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Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.
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science
science-and-religion
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In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.
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It is physically impossible for the human mind to think of nothing. The soul craves emotion, and it will continue to seek fuel for that emotion--good or bad. Your problem is that you're giving it the wrong fuel.
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Dan Brown |
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the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means 'hidden' or 'obscured.' In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had to be kept hidden or 'occult,' and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything 'occult' as evil, and the prejudice survived. >
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