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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

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Challenges, Computer

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Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

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Powerful, Engineering, Body

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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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Memories, Gray Matter, Brain

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Oh, this faithless world! Someone must deliver them. You. If not you, who? You have been saved for a reason. Show them the old demons. Remind them of their fear. Apathy is death. Without darkness, there is no light. Without evil, there is no good. Make them choose. Dark or light. Where is the fear? Where are the heroes? If not now, when?

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Hero, Dark, Light

Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.448, Simon and Schuster

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Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service.

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Design, Effort, Research

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God created... light anddark, heaven and hell-science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite."Including matter itself, antimatter"

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Opposites, Light, Heaven

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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 human potential, but that ancient symbol had been lost over time. Until now.

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Country, Prayer, Men

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...your memories will be muddled and uncataloged - past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams.

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Dream, Memories, Past

Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.57, Knopf

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The woman dashed up the staircase toward the library's main doors. Arriving at the top of the stairs, she grabbed the handle and tried desperately to open each of the three giant doors. The library's closed, lady. But the woman didn't seem to care. She seized one of the heavy ring-shaped handles, heaved it backward, and let it fall with a loud crash against the door. Then she did it again. And again. And again. Wow, the homeless man thought, she must really need a book.

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Book, Fall, Men

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As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.

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Toilets, Thrones, Realization

Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time." Faukman's eyes went wide. "Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail." "I was referring to the Bible." Faukman cringed. "I knew that.

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Book, Eye, Holy Grail

Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”

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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

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Summer, Boys, Bravery

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The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

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Law, Canvas, Physics

"Angels & Demons".

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Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French police…in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.

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Reading, Men, Ivy

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Ladies and gentlemen.” He [Jabba] sighed. “Meet the kamikaze of computer invaders...the worm.

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Gentleman, Computer, Invaders

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Everyone thinks that religion is the ball and chain. But the reality is that sin is the ball and chain. A relationship with Christ is the freedom that people are looking for in alcohol and drugs.

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Reality, Thinking, People

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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.

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Christian, Mean, People

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Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees - boil vats and vats of raw sap - evaporate the water - and keep boiling until you've distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence.

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Writing, Essence, Water

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She cried for the life she could not control. She cried for the mentor who had died before her eyes. She cried for the profound loneliness that filled her heart. But, above all, she cried for the future ... which suddenly felt so uncertain.

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Loneliness, Heart, Eye

Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.76, Knopf

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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 face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

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Morning, Book, Writing

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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.

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Growing Up, Memories, Book

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

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Real, Submarines, World

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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

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Christian, Jesus, Heart

"Copyright Case Against 'Da Vinci Code' Publisher Begins", www.foxnews.com. February 27, 2006.

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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

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Book, Thinking, Views

"Six days until 'The Lost Symbol' hits stores" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2009.

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Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante's work on the modern world.

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Appreciate, Florence, World

"Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code sequel Inferno revealed by readers" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2013.

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