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Best Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate,…
- Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you…
- Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters…
- I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.
- The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
- My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
- The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm,…
- What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle