The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us … - Jacob Bronowski

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I've always been in a mindset where I can lose a K but still smile cuz I know it's coming back another day.

Jacob Bronowski

The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.

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