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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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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or…
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It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of…
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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would…
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No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
— Ernest Renan
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Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by…
— Emile Durkheim
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What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.
— Heraclitus
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It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.
— Robert Breault
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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
— Theodore Parker
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I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.
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I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his…
— Samuel Johnson
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The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he…
— Ayn Rand
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