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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. "
Jordan Peterson
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Connection
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" The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory. "
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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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" 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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" Power is competence. "
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" I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation. "
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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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" 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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" I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses. "
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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. "
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Who
" 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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" 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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You
People
" 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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" The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive. "
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Force
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" Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization. "
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Free
Foundation
" 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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Teacher
Me
Better
" It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words. "
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You
Your
Find
" I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory. "
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Time
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" Everything isn't political. "
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Everything
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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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People
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" I've 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you're not naive after the first few thousand. I've helped people deal with things that most people can't imagine. "
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" You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to. "
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Should
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" The masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious. "
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Obvious
Masculine
Assault
" I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature. "
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Nature
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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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" Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open. "
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Eyes
Accept
Open
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" Become aware of your own insufficiency. "
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