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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. "

Jordan Peterson

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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. "

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

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" It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women. "

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

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" I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.' "

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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 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 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. "

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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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" 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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" One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the women that you approach, it's not the women! "

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" I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses. "

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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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" To me, ideology is corrupt; it's a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you're an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you're religious, there's a mystery left there. "

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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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" Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. "

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