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Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so...
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IVO KARLOVIC
What if the universe was just an atom ?
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God exists and he is an atom. So he exists in every thing and everywhere. An atom is a unit and exam...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteo...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The atom bomb was no ''great decision.'' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of rig...
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It's close to where I live so I was curious to see it from a close distance.
ARJEN ROBBEN
It was so close, I had a hard time watching.
GABY BUSSELL
It was so close to October that Halloween was knocking at his heart.
BARRY EYSMAN
It shouldn't have been that close. But we had been losing those close games, so it was a good to win...
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The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal ...
HARRY S TRUMAN
His largest attribute is the abilility to defend family.
MONK FROST
The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.
QUENTIN REYNOLDS
Men divided the atom first, but now the atom divides men.
GERHARD UHLENBRUCK
It was kind of disappointing to be so close and then not make it.
JEAN GRAVES
The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, an...
RALPH MERKLE
I think it was close enough to call [a strike]. He didn't, though. So it was a ball.
FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ
Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust, Atom to Atom, Returning to the ONE.
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Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
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ALFRED KASTLER
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
We're all so close. It was just amazing for us. We were almost crying.
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO
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BOJANA BOBUSIC
Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.
DAVID R. BROWER
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BONI MEHLOMAKULU
This was heartbreaking. We've been so dang close.
CHARLIE HUGHES
I was so close to communicating the word, but like the Holy Grail, it disappeared.
BRAD FOLTA
It was unlike any feeling I've ever had, ... because we're so close to these Marines.
ROBERT ANDERSON
That was nine years ago and sometimes it seems like yesterday. We were so close.
DEBBIE WEBB
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I've always gone since I was a child. I thought it was something everybody did. We're all so close.
HEATHER GRISHAM
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ANNIKA SORENSTAM
It was so close the whole game. Both teams know each other so well. We really played with our hearts...
DAVE REEL
Leave the atom alone.
E. Y. HARBURG
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MARGARET MCMULLAN
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BILL BRYSON
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THOMAS HARRIS
I wish I hadn't. I had to be so close to it that that was the worst thing about it.
JAMIE LYONS
It was so close that he (Spring) had the wadding from the shotgun shell embedded in his abdomen.
LEE BLACKMON
An atom blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways.
SALVOR HARDIN
I thought it was close the whole game. It sure felt close to me.
MARTI LEIBENGUTH
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GEORGE WALD
One of the things people did best at the office was to use flexibility to its last atom.
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IONE SKYE
It was like a dream come true to have seen both Sonia Gandhi and the helicopter from so close.
HABIBUR RAHMAN
It was fabulous, but it was a close one.
GREG ADKINS
That was close to being foul. I didn't mean for it to be that close, but it was good enough.
KYLE HUDSON
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PETER LINN
I was really happy. But it's almost painful to be so close.
COURTNEY ZABLOCKI
It was a close competition.
KATE SULLIVAN
It was heartbreaking most of all. So close, almost there. We got further than expected. You're going...
TERRENCE KIEL
If it was close by, he was there.
JACK STURGEON
It was so sparse out there they didn't get close enough to each other to collide and form a planet.
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