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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. "

Jordan Peterson

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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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" Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler. "

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

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" There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear. "

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

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" The most propagandistic element of 'Frozen' was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending. "

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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 connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences. "

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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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" Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. "

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" It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure. "

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

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" Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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