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" Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday. "

Jordan Peterson

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" No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life. "

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" I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation. "

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" If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis. "

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" The masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious. "

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" You may say, 'Well, dragons don't exist.' It's, like, yes they do - the category 'predator' and the category 'dragon' are the same category. It absolutely exists. It's a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists. "

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" It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women. "

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" If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it. "

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" Become aware of your own insufficiency. "

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" Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization. "

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" It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over. "

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" I've 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you're not naive after the first few thousand. I've helped people deal with things that most people can't imagine. "

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" 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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" It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate. "

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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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" I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree. "

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" Everything isn't political. "

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" Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me. "

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" I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses. "

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" It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city. "

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" I've done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I've done it, it's been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history. "

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" That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together. "

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" To master a new technology, you have to play with it. "

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" I don't really regard myself as a political figure. "

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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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" My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists. "

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" We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out. "

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" You can say, 'Well, isn't it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine' - well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn't matter, because that is how it's represented. It's been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can't change it. It's not possible. This is underneath everything. "

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" I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don't know exactly what's going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what's inside of them without being part of them. "

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" The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can. "

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