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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

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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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
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
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
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
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
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
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
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Pleasant Struggle Wind
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
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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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