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Kuehl may have a long and distinguished record as an activist, attorney, lawmaker, performer and ceiling shatterer, but that’s hardly the point.

From Washington Times • Jan. 10, 2018

I am become Death The shatterer of worlds.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the test bomb detonated, he silently repeated to himself a line from the Bhagavad-Gita Hindu devotional poem: "I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds."

From Time Magazine Archive

When the first atomic explosion shook the New Mexico desert three weeks before Hiroshima, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Los Alamos' civilian director, quoted from the Bhagavad-Gita: "I am become death, the shatterer of worlds."

From Time Magazine Archive

I took the book from him reverently, and I gazed at those forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the greatest shatterer of dreams who had ever dwelt on earth.

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. by Maupassant, Guy de