Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
TIM MINCHINThe day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
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Science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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The existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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