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" My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists. "
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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" 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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" Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me. "
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" The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open. "
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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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" 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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Kids
Baby
" To me, ideology is corrupt; it's a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you're an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you're religious, there's a mystery left there. "
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Think
Believe
Left
" 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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You
Playing
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" Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left. "
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Left
Obviously
Radical
" Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering. "
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" The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive. "
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Technology
Force
Massive
" The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing. "
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Health
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" To master a new technology, you have to play with it. "
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" It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that. "
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Human Nature
Human
Nature
" Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming. "
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" Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period. "
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Period
Ever
Dependent
" 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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Think
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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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Yourself
Deception
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" All things considered, there's nobody better for children than parents. "
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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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" 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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Meaning
Face
" 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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Opportunity
Freedom
Technology