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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.
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Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.
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Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
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I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.
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You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave you also need to avoid becoming a master.
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Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.
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If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.
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The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.
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I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.
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Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.
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