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“For even with an army of slaves, it was necessary to persuade them that they were freemen and fighters for the principle of freedom, or otherwise the scoundrels might cross over and join the enemy!”

— Sinclair Lewis

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Sinclair Lewis Quote: “For even with an army of slaves, it was necessary to persuade them that they were freemen and fighters for the principle of freedom, or otherwise the scoundrels might cross over and join the enemy!”

“For even with an army of slaves, it was necessary to persuade them that they were freemen and fighters for the principle of freedom, or otherwise the scoundrels might cross over and join the enemy!”

— Sinclair Lewis

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1. “Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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2. “To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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3. “The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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4. “If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

5. “You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!”

— Jordan B. Peterson

6. “Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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7. “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.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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8. “The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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9. “Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honour.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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10. “When you have something to say, silence is a lie – and tyranny feeds on lies.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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11. “Do what is meaningful, not what is expedient.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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12. “What you aim at determines what you see.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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13. “And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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14. “Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

15. “Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

16. “The more you open yourself up to the possibility that good things will happen the higher probability is that good things will in fact happen.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

17. “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

18. “In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

19. “The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do, but are avoiding.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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20. “You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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21. “To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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22. “Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

23. “There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

24. “If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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25. “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.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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26. “A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

27. “The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. Status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

28. “You are by no means only what you already know. You are also all that which you could know, if you only would. Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are. You should never give up the better that resides within for the security you already have – and certainly not when you have already caught a glimpse, an undeniable glimpse, of something beyond.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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29. “It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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30. “Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

31. “There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

32. “Perhaps happiness is always to be found in the journey uphill, and not in the fleeting sense of satisfaction awaiting at the next peak. Much of happiness is hope, no.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

33. “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.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

34. “Always place your becoming above your current being.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

35. “Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

36. “In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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37. “It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

38. “It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

39. “People think they think, but it’s not true. It’s mostly self-criticism that passes for thinking. True thinking is rare – just like true listening. Thinking is listening to yourself. It’s difficult. To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time. Then you have to let those people disagree. Thinking is an internal dialogue between two or more different views of the world.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

40. “It is necessary to be strong in the face of death, because death is intrinsic to life. It is for this reason that I tell my students: aim to be the person at your father’s funeral that everyone, in their grief and misery, can rely on. There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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41. “When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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42. “It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

43. “We cannot navigate without something to aim at, and while we are in this world, we must always navigate.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

44. “Attend to the day, but aim at the highest good. Now, your trajectory is heavenward. That.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

45. “You are, on the one hand, the most complex thing in the entire universe, and on the other, someone who can’t even set the clock on your microwave. Don’t over-estimate your self-knowledge.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

46. “We are not happy, technically speaking, unless we see ourselves progressing – and the very idea of progression implies value.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

47. “People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

48. “It is the primary duty of parents to make their children socially desirable. That will provide the child with opportunity, self-regard, and security. It’s more important even than fostering individual identity.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

49. “But success makes us complacent. We forget to pay attention. We take what we have for granted. We turn a blind eye. We fail to notice that things are changing, or that corruption is taking root. And everything falls apart. Is that the fault of reality – of God? Or do things fall apart because we have not paid sufficient attention.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

50. “Imagine a toddler repeatedly striking his mother in the face. Why would he do such a thing? It’s a stupid question. It’s unacceptably naive. The answer is obvious. To dominate his mother. To see if he can get away with it. Violence, after all, is no mystery. It’s peace that’s the mystery. Violence is the default.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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