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The savages don't have atom bombs.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Born:
Jan 5
,
1921
Died:
Dec 14
,
1990
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Jack London
Me
Space
Dust
Every
Sleepy
Would
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Atom
Rather
Magnificent
Permanent
Glow
Meteor
Than
Ashes
Planet
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
George Orwell
Police
Earth
Sun
Cities
Lies
Atom
Through
Factories
Piling
Still
Up
Going
Round
Streaming
Bombs
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
Omar N. Bradley
Atom
Mystery
Mount
Grasped
Sermon
Rejected
The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Will
Men
Free
Free Will
Creation
Every
Seek
Atom
Only
Could
Mystery
Through
Had
Taking
Him
His
Motive
Infinite
Sensitive
Pains
Creator
Shroud
Presence
Desire
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
Niels Bohr
Looking
Way
Atom
Physicist
Itself
Just
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
Harry S Truman
Great
Righteousness
Decision
Weapon
Atom
Atom Bomb
Merely
Powerful
Powerful Weapon
Another
Arsenal
Bomb
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
Blaise Pascal
Me
World
Space
Thought
Universe
Atom
Comprehend
Through
Like
Up
Swallows
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
Gerard De Nerval
Good
Good And Evil
Evil
Single
Nothing
Universe
Dissolve
Everything
Distinction
Rightly
Has-Been
Lies
Atom
Between
Powerless
Terror
Said
Been
Eternal
Unimportant
Save
Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.
Richard Dawkins
Sports
Science
Space
Fly
Empty Space
Illustration
Solid
Composed
Intuition
Atom
Entirely
Almost
Like
Crystals
Empty
Rocks
Familiar
Stadium
Taught
Middle
Against
Us
Really
Next
Apparently
Things
The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.
Diana Vreeland
Important
Atom
Atom Bomb
Since
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
The Most Important
Bikini
Bomb
Thing
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