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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.

Jordan Peterson

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
We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Fall Reality World
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
Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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Deep Man Nature Perspective Woman
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Expectation People Togetherness World
You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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Act Believe Thinking Yourself
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin
That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Believe Life Need Yourself
Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Value Worth Yourself
Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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Happiness Hope Philosophy
When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Lie Silence Voice 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
Worthlessness is the default condition.
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Condition 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
You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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Direction Inspirational Life Yourself
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

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