To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
TIM MINCHINPlease 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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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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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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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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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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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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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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