Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
TIM MINCHINThe 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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.
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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 famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logicall.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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