It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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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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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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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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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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