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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
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There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.
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The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference
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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.
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An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
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Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.
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It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
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If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.
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The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.
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Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
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Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
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Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
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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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Only in recent history has working hard signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .
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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
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