We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
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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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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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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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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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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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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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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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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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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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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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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