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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

Lucretius

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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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
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
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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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
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
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
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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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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