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Lucretius

We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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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
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total

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