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Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
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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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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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Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
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You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
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If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.
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People focus on role models it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
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Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.
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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.
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I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.
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Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.
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