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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

Lucretius

Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
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
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Anand Thakur
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
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
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink

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