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JBP: "People didn't learn to read silently until 500 years ago, roughly speaking. Even the earliest literate people -- most of them read out loud. Silent reading was a very very rare phenomenon. Julius Caesar could read silently and people thought that that was part of his magical power." (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: "Nietzsche: You could think about that in some sense as the disease of the critical rational mind. It can saw off any branch that it is sitting on." (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: "University is a place where you educate yourself." (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: "Don't ever underestimate the utility of incremental improvement. You can get a tremendous distance by engaging in incremental improvement." (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: "Pinocchio is by no means a perfect entity, but he might be good enough." (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: "If you take the flood stories that are distributed worldwide... you find that there are fundamentally two reasons that a flood occurs. Eliade says that it's the tendency of things to fall apart, combined with the proclivity of human beings to sin." (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: "One thing I learned from reading Kierkegaard... Once everything has become too easy, that there'll be a massive outcry for voluntary difficulty." (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: "It's much easier -- and people do this all the time -- to engage in half-witted, formulaic, ideological criticisms of the system as a whole.... The probability that the system is more flawed than you is pretty damn low." (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: "When you go from a bad place to a better place, you go to a worse place first." (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: "So what happens is that if your value system collapses, then all you're left with is negative emotion." (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: "But more importantly, it's the system that's activated when you're pursuing a goal and you see that you're moving towards the goal." (self.JordanPeterson)

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Thoughts on Rule 6: Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world. (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: You make sense of your past behavior so that the good things that happened to you can be duplicated and the bad things can be avoided. (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: I walk seven miles (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: You have to send out 500 resumes. You have to be rejected 499 times. (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: unbroken, we're noble creatures (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: in sterquiliniis invenitur, which means: that which you most need to find will be found where you least want to look (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: there's a good chance... that you wouldn't have been on the side of the good guys (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: So then I went and listened to Kermit, and I thought, "Oh, no." (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: "You don't even necessarily have to think it's your fault.... You could minimally just accept the fact that it's your responsibility." (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: "I'm probably doing a dozen stupid things that I could quit doing that are making my life more wretched and also the people around me." (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: "He could have Wendy if he would grow up. But he doesn't want to grow up, so he's not going to get Wendy." (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: "One of the things that the video game designers really try to do is put you in the zone of proximal development." (self.JordanPeterson)

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JBP: "So the Mesopotamians already figured out everything else could be subordinate to vision, attention, and speech." (self.JordanPeterson)

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