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.
TIM MINCHINTake them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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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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Define yourself by what you love.
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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’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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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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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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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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