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If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
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Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
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