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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.

Jordan Peterson

In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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Thinking Voice
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
You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.
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Equality Hurt Inspirational Protection Transformation Yourself
To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Hell Suffering Yourself
Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Language One Liner
If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Born Kill Thinking Yourself
Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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Care Worth Yourself
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
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
Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Reality Search
If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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Inspirational Success 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
You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Improvement Perfection Savage Yourself
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Beautiful Death Philosophy Shame Strength Weakness
Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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People Reality Willing
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
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
Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Beginning Responsible Yourself
Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
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Change Greatness World
Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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Danger Existence Ideas Knowledge Mindset Power True
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
If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Motivational Understand Yourself
You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Be Yourself Sacrifice Worth
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
Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Experience Lesson Teaching Worst

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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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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