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Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.
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Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
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Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner.
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
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If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.
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By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.
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The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.
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Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.
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People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.
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There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient, and a random one. In this sense, guessing (what I don't know, but what someone else may know) and predicting (what has not taken place yet) are the same thing.
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The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.
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A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.
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