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If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.

Jordan Peterson

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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Gratitude History Reason World Yourself
You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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Believe Philosophy Thinking Understand Yourself
And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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Danger Deep Man Thinking Weakness Yourself
A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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Act Failure God Necessary Preparation Sin
If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Future Inspirational Satisfaction Yourself
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
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life
Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Improvement Inspirational Place Self Love
We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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Goodness Path Philosophy Stay
Much of happiness is hope.
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Happiness Hope One Liner
Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Reality Search
It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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Company Improvement Live People Yourself
Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Inspirational Sacrifice Self Love Worth
I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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Hurt Myself One Liner
Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Experience Lesson Teaching Worst
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
Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Person 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
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Expectation People Togetherness World
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong Yourself
Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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Deep Man Nature Perspective Woman
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
Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Philosophy Soul
When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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Existence Thinking Tolerance
what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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Limitation Love Person True
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

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