There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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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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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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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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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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