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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Economist
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The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.
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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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My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
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If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.
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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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It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them nerdiness the reverse
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