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Nothing can be created out of nothing.

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Titus Lucretius Carus
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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