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What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Alan Greenspan is unskilled you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.
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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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Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner.
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Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.
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The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.
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A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
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If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.
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Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
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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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The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
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