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

Jordan Peterson

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" Become aware of your own insufficiency. "

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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. "

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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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" Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming. "

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

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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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" There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear. "

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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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" Everything isn't political. "

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

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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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" The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that. "

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

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" 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.' "

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

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

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" It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city. "

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" All things considered, there's nobody better for children than parents. "

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" The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing. "

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

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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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" The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive. "

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

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" People have this capacity within them to set the world straight. "

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