Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
TIM MINCHINA famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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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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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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