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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.

Jordan Peterson

You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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Death Deep Life Time Wisdom
There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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Deep Failure People Way Wound
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
When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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Death Politics Sick
I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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Hurt Myself One Liner
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
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
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
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
You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Be Yourself Sacrifice Worth
Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Man Simplicity Truth Word
Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Beginning Responsible 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
Much of happiness is hope.
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Happiness Hope One Liner
Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Person Yourself

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