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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

There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Anand Thakur
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
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
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
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
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
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Anand Thakur
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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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
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Anand Thakur
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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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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