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

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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" 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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" 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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" There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s. "

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" One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the women that you approach, it's not the women! "

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" Abortion is clearly wrong. "

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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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" Everything isn't political. "

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

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" 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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" 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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" I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification. "

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

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

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

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" It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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