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• Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.

  Sean M. Carroll

  Atheist, Self, Ideas

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• When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.  What you emerged with what you are is an ocean of bliss.  Your cells and atoms and brain and bones and blood stream all of it is bliss.

  Robert Thurman

  Letting Go, Ocean, Cells

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• The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

  Harold Innis

  Age, Bombs, Modern

  Harold A. Innis, Daniel Drache (1995). “Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change: Selected Essays”, p.17, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• If you show this devious little liar one atom's worth of compassion I will have you shot.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Liars, Compassion, Littles

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• What's the matter?'' She immediately started laughin. ''What's the mattter? Everything is the matter! Rocks! Trees! Atoms! Even anteaters! Everything is the matter!

  Dan Brown

  Rocks, Tree, Matter

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• History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the beginning of time. History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use energy of the wind, the seas, the atom.

  Paulo Coelho

  War, Wind, Sea

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• We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us.

  Wendy Mass

  Beautiful, Taken, Cells

  Wendy Mass (2010). “Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not going to happen. We love your voice, but maybe we could use some of your English wit.' He had doubts about it from way back. For starters, we weren't going to be doing the Italian-American crooning thing.

  Colin Firth

  Love You, Italian, Voice

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• Friends: how many have 'em?
  How long before they split like atoms?
  Don't ask me, but what I do stand behind
  Is someone havin' your back seems hard to find.

  Kelvin Mercer

  Rap, Long, Hip Hop

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• Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ideas, Progress, Matter

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• It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.

  Albert Einstein

  Depressing, Time, Prejudice

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• We all walk in a land of dreams. For what are we but atoms and hope, a handful of stardust and sinew? We are weary travelers trying to find our way home on a road that never ends. Am I a part of your dream? or are you but a part of mine?

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Home, Land

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.144, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist

  Democritus

  Sweet, Reality, Color

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• Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.

  Jojo Moyes

  Airports, Opposites, Way

  Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.352, Penguin

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• If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Mind, Mountain

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• The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Freedom, Men, Power

  Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”, p.61

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• I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women by courtesy, leads me to wish for my wife again. How did I ever hit on the only woman in the world who fits my cravings and never sounds hollow anywhere? Social chemistry-the mutual attraction of equivalent human molecules-is a science yet to be created, for the fact is my daily study and only satisfaction in life.

  Henry Adams

  Struggle, Men, Satisfaction In Life

  Henry Adams (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 1-3: 1858-1892”, p.28, Harvard University Press

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• Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides, but they do not suffice for the oldest task in human history, to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Tasks, Cracks

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.548, Library of America

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• If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide. This thread is a billion times longer than its own width. Relatively speaking, it is as if your little finger stretched from Paris to Los Angeles.

  Jeremy Narby

  Dna, Cells, Two

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.71, Penguin

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• Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numberous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms-up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested-probably once belonged to Shakespeare. A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name.

  Bill Bryson

  Stars, Names, Numbers

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• History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use the energy of the wind, the seas, the atom.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Wind

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• Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb.

  Juan Trippe

  Destiny, Air, Bombs

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• Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Stars, Men, Space

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• Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Stars, Healing, Hands

  YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.

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• Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Pain, Suffering, Matter

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