"The world isn't made of atoms, it's made of stories."
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"Whoever has Heart's doors wide open, could see the Sun itself in every atom."
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"In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances."
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"Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for."
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"I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened."
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"What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope."
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"That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements."
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"We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!"
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"I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one."
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"Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient in degree for the purposes of the most intense individuality."
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"Consider that in this very moment, your body is changing as it reshuffles and exchanges its atoms and molecules with the rest of the universe - and you're doing it faster than you can change your clothes."
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"Everything is made of atoms."
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"It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost."
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"I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it."
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"One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one- third is rocked by the pangs of poverty, hunger and envy. More energy is released by the awakening of these new nations than by the fission of the atom itself."
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"I'm found of what's called emergence - as the universe gets more complex, new laws can emerge. Like evolution - there's things that you just aren't able to explain, even if you had an understanding of atoms."
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"But I tell you - and mark my words - you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current."
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"Not one atom can rest until it finds its freedom."
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"There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last atom of matter is reached; reflect and refine till the last element of thought is made clear; the church now knows with the certainty of science what she once knew only by the certainty of faith, that you will find enthroned behind all thought and matter only one central idea--that idea which the church has never ceased to embody--I AM!"
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"Our planet is a tiny atom in god's kingdom."
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