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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.

Jordan Peterson

It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
JORDAN PETERSON

Control Yourself
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.
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Born People Reality
When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Lie Silence Voice Yourself
Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Improvement Inspirational Place Self Love
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
If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Motivational Understand Yourself
Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Man Simplicity Truth Word
The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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Avoid Existence Right Secret Yourself
Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Man Tolerance Truth Worth
It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Hell Ideas
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
Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Responsible Self Love Yourself
We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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Direction World
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
That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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People Soul Spiritual
It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Care Protection Yourself

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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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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