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Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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.…
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Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or…
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Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities…
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...maximize the serendipity around you.
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Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.
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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be…
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
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Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these…
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But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.
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After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former…
— Robert Fisk
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone…
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It's not Beirut or Bosnia.
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To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
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I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.
— Kelly Preston
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Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of…
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I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I've been involved in every national crisis that this nation…
— John McCain
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Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the…
— Roger Ebert
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When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse…
— Greg Kinnear
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You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the…
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As I searched the atlas for somewhere to run to, Hugh made a case for his old stomping grounds. His first suggestion…
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