"The atom has taught me that the little things do count - most."
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"Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration."
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"Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing."
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"I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me."
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"There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed."
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"I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first."
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"If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple."
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"Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on the walls — meant nothing. Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and its appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch, for everything was suddenly tissue-thin and friable."
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"If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage."
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"Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind."
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"Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not lose an atom of our consideration! Oh, what a great mistake that is! The Saints did not act thus."
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"The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb."
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"Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?"
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"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together."
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"It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice."
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"It is He who manifests as both matter and consciousness. There is no place where God is not. In every atom, in every living being He alone is present."
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"I loved her, atom by atom, one burning cell at a time."
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"Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind."
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"If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British."
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"An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation."
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