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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
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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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Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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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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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
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When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.
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Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
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