There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
TIM MINCHINBe demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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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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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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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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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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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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