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Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Economist
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Mathematician
Philosopher
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University Teacher
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Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
Nassim Taleb
Domestication
Stoicism
Elimination
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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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