Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
TIM MINCHINA famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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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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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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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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 spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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