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Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.
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