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“Here are young women with more opportunities, more liberties than almost any women in history and at that moment we tell them they’re short-changed silenced victims of a patriarchy? It’s defeatist and demoralising.”
― Christina Hoff Sommers

“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
― Confucius

“Victimhood gives us great moral superiority and entitles us to unquestioning sympathy while exempting us from examining any single one of our actions. A victim is utterly devoid of responsibility or blame. This of course leaves us vulnerable as we will carry on engaging in precisely the behaviour which provoked an unacceptable response.”
― Belinda Brown

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“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.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“What is your friend: the things you know, or the things you don't know. First of all, there's a lot more things you don't know. And second, the things you don't know is the birthplace of all your new knowledge! So if you make the things you don't know your friend, rather than the things you know, well then you're always on a quest in a sense. You're always looking for new information in the off chance that somebody who doesn't agree with you will tell you something you couldn't have figured out on your own! It's a completely different way of looking at the world. It's the antithesis of opinionated.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences.

For example if someone is making everyone around them miserable and you'd like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.”
― Jordan Peterson

“Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.”
― Farley Mowat

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
― Socrates

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
― Helen Keller

“He who learns must suffer.”
― Aeschylus

“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”
― Aeschylus

“America ... has created a 'civilization' that represents an exact contradiction of the ancient European tradition. It has introduced the religion of praxis and productivity; it has put the quest for profit, great industrial production, and mechanical, visible, and quantitative achievements over any other interest. It has generated a soulless greatness of a purely technological and collective nature, lacking any background of transcendence, inner light, and true spirituality. America has [built a society where] man becomes a mere instrument of production and material productivity within a conformist social conglomerate”
― Julius Evola

“If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.”
― William Feather

“Rule your mind or it will rule you.”
― Horace

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
― Vince Lombardi

“If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.”
― Grenville Kleiser

“There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.”
― Grenville Kleiser

“By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.”
― Grenville Kleiser

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy....Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.”
― Phyllis Schlafly

“Wise men say nothing in dangerous times”
― aesop

“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
― Guy Kawasaki

“Usually when a woman was in the wrong, she could find so many things to blame on the nearest man that he wound up thinking maybe he really was at fault.”
― Robert Jordan, A Crown of Swords

“Being a man is not a matter of whether hair grows on your chin, lad. It's inside your head. Some males never make it at all. Being a man is rolling up your sleeves and telling the world 'Now I'll play by the real rules—no more wooden swords. If I succeed, then the credit belongs to me, not my parents or teachers or employers, and I shall savor the prizes without guilt, knowing I earned them. And if I fail, then I'll pay the penalties without whimpering or blaming anyone else.' That's what manhood is,”
― Dave Duncan, Magic Casement

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929