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" Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open. "
Jordan Peterson
Eyes
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" You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you. "
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" It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words. "
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" People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story. "
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" I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.' "
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" The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood. "
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Dead
Wood
" I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more. "
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Think
Country
" I like working-class people, generally speaking. "
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Speaking
Like
People
" Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. "
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Ever
Lying
Lie
" It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp. "
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Makes
" You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another. "
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Over
You
" Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous. "
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" Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization. "
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Value
Free
Foundation
" It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city. "
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Difficult
City
Yourself
" It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy. "
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Liberals
Up
Nature
" A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it's actually a being. 'Harry Potter''s a good example. So Harry's the hero, right. But he's tainted with evil. There's a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It's well balanced. "
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Light
Positive
Hero
" Abortion is clearly wrong. "
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Abortion
Wrong
Clearly
" Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life. "
Jordan Peterson
Community
Family
Together
" It's in the best interest of the radical left types - best psychological and strategic interest - to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable. "
Jordan Peterson
Admit
Best
Interest
" We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out. "
Jordan Peterson
Then
Them
Out
" The right-wingers don't want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick. "
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Some People
Want
Think
" We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they're stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another. "
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Wise
Marriage
Truth
" The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences. "
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Important
Connection
Hard
" You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to. "
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You
Should
Good
" Everything isn't political. "
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Everything
Political
" To master a new technology, you have to play with it. "
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You
Play
Master
" It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate. "
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Government
Inappropriate
Too
" Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering. "
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Ideas
Suffering
Difficult
" If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards. "
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You
Your
Ground
" Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that's being pushed in a manner in schools that's completely reprehensible. It's not education, in my estimation. It's a form of indoctrination. "
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Morality
Identity
" Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period. "
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Period
Ever
Dependent