You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
TIM MINCHINEmpathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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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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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 genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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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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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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