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I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.
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We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible we scorn the abstract.
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You get pseudo-order when you seek order you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.
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They are born, put in a box they go home to live in a box they study by ticking boxes they go to what is called work in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box they talk about thinking outside the box and when they die they are put in a box.
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
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When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.
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You never win an argument until they attack your person.
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A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
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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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