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A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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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Only the autodidacts are free.
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There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
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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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I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.
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Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
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[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.
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Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.
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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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I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.
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Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.
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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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If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything.
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You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave you also need to avoid becoming a master.
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Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
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Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner.
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What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
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If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.
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Love without sacrifice is like theft
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But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.
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It's harder to say 'no' when you really mean it.
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