Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
TIM MINCHINIt’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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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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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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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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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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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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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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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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