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" Power is competence. "
Jordan Peterson
Power
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" In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures. "
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" I don't really regard myself as a political figure. "
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" Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. "
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" 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. "
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" Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Left
" Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left. "
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Obviously
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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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Crime
You
People
" People have this capacity within them to set the world straight. "
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People
Straight
Them
" I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.' "
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Right
You
Way
" 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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Politics
Think
Country
" 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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Group
End
You
" 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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Data
Accept
Little
" The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory. "
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" I like working-class people, generally speaking. "
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Like
People
" 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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Who
" 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
Everything
" I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest. "
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Am
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Detest
" If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it. "
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Learn
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" The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive. "
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" All things considered, there's nobody better for children than parents. "
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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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" The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are. "
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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 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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" 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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You
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