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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
Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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Age Inspirational Skill Success
Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Man Simplicity Truth Word
what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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Limitation Love Person True
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
It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Hell Ideas
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
Much of happiness is hope.
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Happiness Hope One Liner
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
Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Improvement Inspirational Place Self Love
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong 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
It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Harm Mental Oneself Virtue
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 may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Deep God Value Worth
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

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