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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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Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by…
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what…
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
— Otto von Bismarck
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided.…
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One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.
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Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.
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A champion plays the game; a spectator observes, criticizes and never really gets to live. A champion knows what he or she…
— Bruce Jenner
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Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about…
— Saint Augustine
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