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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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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a…
— Cesar Chavez
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so it…
— Cesar Chavez
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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
— Thucydides
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If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.
— David Gest
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Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
— Kent Nerburn
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Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world…
— Robert E. Lee
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Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as…
— James Freeman Clarke
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Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in…
— Alexander MacLaren
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Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be…
— Yukio Mishima
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History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of…
— Walter Bagehot
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