Dan Brown Quotes
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201. “Human intellect has always evolved by rejecting outdated information in favor of new truths.”

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202. “As we mathematicians like to say: PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!”

— Dan Brown

203. “Shaped like an enormous horseshoe, the Louvre was the longest building in Europe, stretching farther than three Eiffel Towers laid end to end.”

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204. “Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. – Dr. Sienna Brooks.”

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205. “Love is a private thing. The world does not need to know.”

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206. “Of course you can’t stop. 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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207. “In Christianity, the number eight represented rebirth and re-creation. The octagon served as a visual reminder of the six days of God’s creation of heaven and earth, the one day of Sabbath, and the eighth day, upon which Christians were “reborn” or “re-created” through baptism. Octagons had become a common shape for baptistries around the world.”

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208. “Dante’s poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of the human spirit to endure any challenge, no matter how daunting.”

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209. “Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?”

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210. “I reject monogamy as an affront to evolution.”

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211. “A noble quest, Kirsch thought, despite seeing it as an empty exercise – a meaningless search for random points of correspondence among a hodgepodge of ancient fictions, fables, and myths.”

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212. “Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps that science did not understand. The rising and setting of the sun was once attributed to Helios and a flaming chariot. Earthquakes and tidal waves were the wrath of Poseidon. Science has now proven those gods to be false idols. Soon all Gods will be proven to be false idols.”

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213. “Sometimes you need to go up... to go down.”

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214. “We exist with or without God. We are the inevitable result of entropy. Life is not the point of the universe. Life is simply what the universe creates and reproduces in order to dissipate energy.”

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215. “Now the student has surpassed his teacher, Langdon thought. By several light-years.”

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216. “It’s a Latin mnemonic invented by the Vatican in the Middle Ages to remind Christians of the Seven Deadly Sins. Saligia is an acronym for: superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira, and acedia.”

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217. “The male ego had spent two millennia running unchecked by its female counterpart. The Priory of Sion believed that it was this obliteration of the sacred feminine in modern life that had caused what the Hopi Native Americans called koyanisquatsi – “life out of balance” – an unstable situation marked by testosterone-fueled wars, a plethora of misogynistic societies, and a growing disrespect for Mother Earth.”

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218. “When the ancients discovered ‘Phi’, they were certain they had stumbled across God’s building block for the world.”

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219. “And believe me, the Catholic Church has much to thank Dante for. His Inferno terrified the faithful for centuries, and no doubt tripled church attendance among the fearful.”

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220. “Seven Deadly Sins. Saligia is an acronym for: superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira, and acedia.”

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221. “Human beings are evolving into something different,” he declared. “We are becoming a hybrid species – a fusion of biology and technology.”

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222. “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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223. “The Apocalypse is not the end of the world, but rather it is the end of the world as we know it.”

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224. “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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225. “When a computer creates art, who is the artist – the computer or the programmer?”

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226. “Nothing in Christianity is original.”

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227. “For every lunacy, there is an equal and opposite lunacy.”

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228. “Culling is God’s Natural Order. Ask yourself, What followed the Black Death? We all know the answer. The Renaissance. Rebirth.”

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229. “The religion of the future, Einstein had predicted, will be a cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Robert.”

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230. “The art is in knowing how to ask.”

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231. “Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are the laws of nature and balance. And if we look at the darkness growing in the world today, we have to realize that this means there is equal light growing.”

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232. “Despite for a monumental reputation, the Mona Lisa was a mere thirty-one inches by twenty-one inches – smaller even than the posters of her sold in the Louvre gift shop.”

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233. “If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.”

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234. “The human spirit craves for mastery over its carnal shell.”

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235. “Anything is possible when people believe in a cause.”

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236. “Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.”

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237. “Sweet science will banish the dark religions... so that enlightened religions can flourish.”

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238. “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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239. “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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240. “The world had gone mad, and in may parts of Europe, advertising your love of Jesus Christ was like painting a bull’s-eye on the roof of your car.”

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241. “Churchill. Langdon needed a moment to realize she was referring to none other than Winston Churchill himself, the celebrated British statesman who, in addition to being a military hero, historian, orator, and Nobel Prize–winning author, was an artist of remarkable talent. Langdon now recalled Edmond quoting the British prime minister once in response to a comment someone made about religious people hating him: You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something!”

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242. “Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.”

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243. “For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world.”

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244. “Breathe through your eyes,” she said. “I’m sorry?” “It relaxes the muscles. It’s called pranayama.”

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245. “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, et cetera.” “Okay. And codes?” “Codes are special,” Langdon said, his tone rising. “Codes, by definition, must carry information. They must do more than simply form a pattern – codes must transmit data and convey meaning.”

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246. “I’ve heard of denial,” Langdon quipped blithely, “but I don’t think it exists.”

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247. “Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor along with.”

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248. “How about Panspermia?” Winston asked. “The notion that life on earth was seeded from another planet by a meteor or cosmic dust? Panspermia is considered a scientifically valid possibility to explain the existence of life on earth.”

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249. “Men in power are always interested in greater power.”

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250. “My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.”

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