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Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Lucretius

For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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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
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Anand Thakur

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

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