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“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. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

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“Some people were born just so they could be buried.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

tags: hillbilly-noir, hoi-polloi, lower-class, pointlessness

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“Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

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“What you aim at determines what you see.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

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“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, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

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