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Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail? Jordan Peterson

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Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that's being pushed in a manner in schools that's completely reprehensible. It's not education, in my estimation. It's a form of indoctrination. Jordan Peterson

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'Happiness' is a pointless goal. Jordan Peterson

Happiness Pointless Goal

All things considered, there's nobody better for children than parents. Jordan Peterson

Better Parents Considered All Things Nobody Than Children Things

To me, ideology is corrupt; it's a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you're an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you're religious, there's a mystery left there. Jordan Peterson

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My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it. Justin Trudeau

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People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot. Keanu Reeves

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It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world. Keanu Reeves

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The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story. Keanu Reeves

I feel what I feel. If I wanna cry, I'm gonna cry - regardless of who watches me. Leah LaBelle

Me Feel Cry Wanna Regardless Gonna Who Watches

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process. Leonard Cohen

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When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. Leonard Cohen

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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. Leonard Cohen

Prayer Man Language Translation He Mastered Himself Child Asking Barely

There is no casting director; there is no producer monitoring your upload button. Anyone that looks like anyone can upload a video. I think YouTube and the digital space does set a really good example for the rest of the industry in that sense. Lilly Singh

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Art is anything people do with distinction. Louis Dudek

Art People Distinction Anything

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. Lucy Maud Montgomery

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It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go back to university and get a law degree?' I kind of looked around me and thought, 'What kind of idiot am I that I've just spent the last 10 years writing novels? Financially, I'm pretty much where I was when I was 28.' Lynn Coady

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Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate. Lynn Coady

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I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of. Mac DeMarco

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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. Malcolm Gladwell

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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact. Margaret Atwood

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I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way. Margaret Atwood

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I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this. Margaret Atwood

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