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 MINCHINBe demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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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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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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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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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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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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If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.
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