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" No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life. "

Jordan Peterson

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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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" A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it's actually a being. 'Harry Potter''s a good example. So Harry's the hero, right. But he's tainted with evil. There's a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It's well balanced. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest. "

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" 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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" 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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" It's in the best interest of the radical left types - best psychological and strategic interest - to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable. "

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

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

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" The masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious. "

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" Power is competence. "

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" The right-wingers don't want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick. "

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

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

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" You can't just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can't incite people to crime. There's all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system. "

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

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

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