I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.

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You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it. ― Jordan B. Peterson

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Be active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others.

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Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.

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You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain - without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.

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Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday. - Jordan Peterson

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Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

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Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity. — Marie Curie

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