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

Jordan Peterson

We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Fall Reality World
To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Hell Suffering Yourself
The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Future Success
In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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Thinking Voice
Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Experience Lesson Teaching Worst
If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Motivational Understand Yourself
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
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong Yourself
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
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
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
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin
Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Language One Liner
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
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
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

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