| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8126 |
| QUOTATION: | We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.... The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Omar Bradley (18931981), U.S. general. speech, Nov. 11, 1948, Armistice Day. Collected Writings, vol. 1 (1967). |
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