Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
TIM MINCHINTo dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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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 … 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 is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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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