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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

Lucretius

How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
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
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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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
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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
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
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
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
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
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

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

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