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Mistake Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.
- Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
- Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
- A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
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