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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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Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don’t.
— Louis C. K.
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Please. Don’t switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don’t express…
— Sarah Kane
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Brothers and sisters, this is a divine work in process, with the manifestations and blessings of it abounding in every direction, so…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Jesus Christ was the most perfect being to ever walk this planet and he was persecuted and nailed to the cross ……
— Phil Robertson
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You can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself, but please don’t hurt each other!
— Tommy Wiseau
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Please don’t get hung up on this question of whether you need to have experience in an industry before you launch your…
— Richard Branson
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Dear young people, please, don’t be observers of life, but get involved. Jesus did not remain an observer, but he immersed himself.…
— Pope Francis
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Please don’t think so lightly of liking someone. It’s terribly important. It is a kind of loving, you know, and one that…
— Anne Perry
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Please don’t spoil my day; I’m miles away and, after all, I’m only sleeping.
— John Lennon
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All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for…
— Conan O'Brien
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Not half as much as I’d miss me if you killed me. (He blinked like a girl and leaned against Ash’s shoulder.)…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Please don’t let it be another cop. I’m outta bail money. Wait a minute…I could sell you on eBay and make a…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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