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

Jordan Peterson

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

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" The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory. "

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" It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy. "

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

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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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" Power is competence. "

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

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

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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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" It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words. "

Jordan Peterson

" 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. "

Jordan Peterson

" 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.' "

Jordan Peterson

" Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved. "

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" Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated. "

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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. "

Jordan Peterson

" 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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" 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. "

Jordan Peterson

" Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period. "

Jordan Peterson

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

Jordan Peterson

" 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. "

Jordan Peterson

" 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. "

Jordan Peterson

" You can't go backward in life. "

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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. "

Jordan Peterson

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

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

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