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

Jordan Peterson

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

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

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" Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly. "

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" The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are. "

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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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" 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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" There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men. "

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

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

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

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

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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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" I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch. "

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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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" You can't go backward in life. "

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" Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that's being pushed in a manner in schools that's completely reprehensible. It's not education, in my estimation. It's a form of indoctrination. "

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

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