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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave you also need to avoid becoming a master.
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You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.
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My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.
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Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.
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Only the autodidacts are free.
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We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.
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The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.
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Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
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I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or incentives for skill.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.
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Ideas come and go, stories stay.
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Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.
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Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
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When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.
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Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.
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