To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
TIM MINCHINOnce you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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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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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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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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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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