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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.

Jordan Peterson

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
Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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Choice Destiny Mystery Ourselves Potential Reality Transform World
We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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Direction World
Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
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Direction Inspirational Opportunity Power Transformation
If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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Inspirational Success 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
If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Born Kill Thinking Yourself
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
You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Be Yourself Sacrifice Worth
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
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
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
There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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Different Freedom Life Strength Worth
Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Man Tolerance Truth Worth
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
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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Goodness Path Philosophy Stay

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