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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

Lucretius

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
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
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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Anand Thakur
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Anand Thakur
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Anand Thakur
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

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