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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?

Lucretius

So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
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
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
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
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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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
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition

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