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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?

Lucretius

Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
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
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Anand Thakur
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur

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