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

Lucretius

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
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
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
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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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
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
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
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
LUCRETIUS

Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself

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

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