Jordan Peterson (Jordan Bernt Peterson) Quotes
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I have selective hearing.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.
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I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
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Like any bully, Putin only picks fights that he is sure he can win. History tells us that sooner or later, he will become so overconfident, so accustomed to his opponents folding their cards against his weak hand, that he will overstep, potentially resulting in a catastrophe on a global scale.
Garry Kasparov -
I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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Like a human being, each word has a story. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today and how it has changed along the way.
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Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.
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It is important that South Africans of all political persuasions be represented in Parliament.
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I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.
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If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!
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What the hell is happening to the world when those who were at the origin of... international humanitarian law start questioning in public debates whether it has any relevance or should be respected?
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I try to find a subject that is interesting to me and to the viewer both. If I can't, then I stop right there.
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A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.
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Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?
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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
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Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.
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Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.
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When you know that the snake is in you – that's wisdom.
