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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.' "
Jordan Peterson
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" You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it's not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there's been human beings. "
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" Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. "
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" I suppose for a very long time I've been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't really regard myself as a political figure. "
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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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" 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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" If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis. "
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" People have this capacity within them to set the world straight. "
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" The masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious. "
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" When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation. "
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" No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life. "
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" 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. "
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" Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization. "
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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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" I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory. "
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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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" Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it. "
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" If you're talking to a man who wouldn't fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you're talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect. "
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" If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards. "
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" I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it. "
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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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" Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open. "
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" I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest. "
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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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" My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists. "
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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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" 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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" I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation. "
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