It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
TIM MINCHINThere 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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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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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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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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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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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