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" You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another. "

Jordan Peterson

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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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" 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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" Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated. "

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" Abortion is clearly wrong. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over. "

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

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

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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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" 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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