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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.

Lucretius

I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Anand Thakur
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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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
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
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
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur

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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