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.
TIM MINCHINEmpathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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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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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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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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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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