I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
TIM MINCHINRespect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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If anyone can show me … that there is any reason – other than fear – to believe in any version of an afterlife, I’ll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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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’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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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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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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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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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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