"Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user."

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Source : "The Lost Symbol". Book by Dan Brown, (Trish Dunne, Ch. 18), 2009.

Dan Brown

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“Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he leans: some call her Memory, And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet, With deep mysterious accords: the other, Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams A light divine and searching on the earth, Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields, Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew, Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked But for Tradition; we walk evermore To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.”
“In whatever country you live, however young or inadequate you feel, or however aged or limited you see yourself as being, I testify you are individually loved of God, you are central to the meaning of His work, and you are cherished and prayed for by the presiding officers of His Church. The personal value, the sacred splendor of everyÂ one of you, is the very reason there is a plan for salvation and exaltation.”
“I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.”
“That's why it's hard, I think, to rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn. I love that line from the Bible, but it's so incredibly difficult sometimes, because when you've got reason to rejoice, you forget what it's like to mourn, even if you swear you never will. And because when you're mourning, the fact that someone close to you is rejoicing seems like a personal affront.”
“The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.”
“Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.”
“You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.”
“I can't do anything without the ball so when I don't have it I have to go get it!”

Source : Twitter post from May 20, 2014

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