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" If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards. "

Jordan Peterson

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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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" I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that's so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn't you take university courses throughout your entire life? "

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" I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest. "

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" People have this capacity within them to set the world straight. "

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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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" It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that. "

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" The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity. "

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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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" If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue? "

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" The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that. "

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