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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.

Jordan Peterson

The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
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Carry Character Development Dream Power Struggle
Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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Enough Important Learning Secure
There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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Danger Goodness Gratitude Protection Reality Victim
I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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Development Goodness Myself Thinking
It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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Believe Dream World Yourself
If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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Character Lie True Weakness Worth Yourself
That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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One Liner Poetry
To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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Act Life Live Possible Value
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin
You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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Act Choice Pay Philosophy Poison Yourself
Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
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Direction Inspirational Opportunity Power Transformation
If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.
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Children Difficult Forever Friendship Learning
So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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Knowledge Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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Act Believe Thinking Yourself
One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
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Children Family Necessary Problem Rich
Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Reality Search

It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.

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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.

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