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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.

Lucretius

Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
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
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
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
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur

Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.

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