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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. "

Jordan Peterson

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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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" If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue? "

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" You can't go backward in life. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story. "

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" There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s. "

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

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

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

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

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

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" I don't really regard myself as a political figure. "

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

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" Everything isn't political. "

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" 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 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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" Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period. "

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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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