We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
TIM MINCHINWe must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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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 don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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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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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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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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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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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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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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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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