Dan Brown

Author

1964-06-22

Quotes by Dan Brown

• I love the gray area between right and wrong.

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• God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.

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• Isn't antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.Enterprise?

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• Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense, a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve.

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• Outside the window, a bank of clouds appeared on the horizon, inching slowly across the sky, finally slipping across the Moon and blocking out its radiant light. As he clicked off his overhead light, he turned his eyes one last time to the heavens. Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.

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• Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas maybe 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 the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us... vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth us not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called... re-membered... re-cognized... as that which is already inside us.

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• Scientific advancement carries risk,— Kohler argued. "It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine" they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For everyone's sake."Vittoria was amazed at Kohler's ability to weigh moral issues with scientific detachment. His intellect seemed to be the product of an icy divorce from his inner spirit. "You think CERN is so critical to the earth's future that we should be immune from moral responsibility?

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• The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure.

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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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• History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?

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• By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

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• If we don't embrace them, then we are as undeserving of life as the caveman who freezes to death because he's afraid to start a fire.

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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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• Langdon turned to Sophie. Who is that? What... happened?Teabing hobbled over. You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.

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• The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears.

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• When you're a black woman, her mother said, ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

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• Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

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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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• The key to our scientific future,....is hidden in our past

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• Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

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