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Lucretius

So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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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
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Anand Thakur
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur

All life is a struggle in the dark.

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