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"Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved."

"Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets."

"I couldn't help but feel as if everyone had lied about everything. We all had secrets. We all had a dark side to our innocent cover. I wondered what we would be like, if we had been completely honest with each other in the first place. Maybe more people would be alive, but then again, more people could be dead."

"I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles."

"Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret."

"That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance."
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"As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence."

"I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet."

"It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery."

"Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job."

"Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold."

"I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected."

"Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons."

"We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries."
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