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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

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