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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

Lucretius

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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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
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence

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