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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?

Jordan Peterson

In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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Thinking Voice
You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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Future Past Preparation Remember Yourself
Worthlessness is the default condition.
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Condition Worth
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
Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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Deep Man Nature Perspective Woman
In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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Heaven Lie Talk Truth
Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Experience Lesson Teaching Worst
Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Philosophy Soul
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
See the truth. Tell the truth.
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Minimalism One Liner See Truth
It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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Happiness Success Yourself
What you aim at determines what you see.
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One Liner Perspective See Yourself
It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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Control Yourself
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Expectation People Togetherness World
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
If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Motivational Understand Yourself
The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Future Success
That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Believe Life Need Yourself
Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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Born Death Destruction Force Learning
It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Care Protection Yourself
Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Man Simplicity Truth Word
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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Compare Inspirational Self Love 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
Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Value Worth Yourself
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
Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Improvement Inspirational Place Self Love

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