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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows a journalist or consultant the opposite.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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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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Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.
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Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
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The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.
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It is also naïve empiricism to provide, in support of some argument, series of eloquent confirmatory quotes by dead authorities. By searching, you can always find someone who made a well-sounding statement that confirms your point of view and, on every topic, it is possible to find another dead thinker who said the exact opposite.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.
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