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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

Lucretius

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
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
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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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
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
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
LUCRETIUS

Earth Escape God People Scare

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