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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.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.
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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
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It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
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But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.
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Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.
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If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
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I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.
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Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense
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