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

Jordan Peterson

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

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

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

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" You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another. "

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" We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they're stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another. "

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" In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures. "

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

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

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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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" The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive. "

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" Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open. "

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

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

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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 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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" 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'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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" 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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