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p. 23

If you can bite, you generally don't have to.

— Jordan Peterson

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "If you can bite, you generally don't have to." in the context of "p. 23" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Jordan Peterson

About Jordan Peterson

Jordan Bernt Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999), 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2017), Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life (2021) and We Who Wrestle With God (2024)