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

Jordan Peterson

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" 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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" 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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" Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption. "

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" As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight. "

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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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" 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'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature. "

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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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" You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to. "

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

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" Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed. "

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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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" You can't just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can't incite people to crime. There's all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system. "

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" If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, 'No.' "

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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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" Everything isn't political. "

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" You can't go backward in life. "

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" If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I'll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing. "

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" Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left. "

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

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" Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail? "

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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 multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive. "

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

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

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

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

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