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

Jordan Peterson

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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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" I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that's so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn't you take university courses throughout your entire life? "

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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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" 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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" I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch. "

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" 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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" 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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" You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you. "

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" 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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" Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization. "

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" Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday. "

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" I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification. "

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

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

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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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" It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that. "

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

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

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

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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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" Everything isn't political. "

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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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" I like working-class people, generally speaking. "

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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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" Abortion is clearly wrong. "

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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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" 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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" 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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