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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

Lucretius

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
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Anand Thakur
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison

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