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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).

Lucretius

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Anand Thakur
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
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
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
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
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Anand Thakur
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
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
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur

The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).

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