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

Jordan Peterson

Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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Death Different Life Right
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
I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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Hurt Myself One Liner
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
The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Future Success
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
Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
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Danger Life Truth 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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Act Life Live Possible Value
We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
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Believe Important Responsibility Truth
We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Deep God Value Worth
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
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin
Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Philosophy Soul
Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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Happiness Life Virtue
You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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Deserve Destiny Important People Respect Worth Yourself
Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Reality Search

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