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.
TIM MINCHINWe have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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If anyone can show me … that there is any reason – other than fear – to believe in any version of an afterlife, I’ll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.
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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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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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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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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Define yourself by what you love.
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea.
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