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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

Lucretius

Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
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
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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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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Anand Thakur

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

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