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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.

Lucretius

One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
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
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
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
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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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
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur

All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.

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