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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Ideas come and go, stories stay.
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Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
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Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.
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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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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them nerdiness the reverse
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