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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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For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when…
— John Calvin
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It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times…
— Albert Camus
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Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
— Dan Millman
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Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind…
— Rajneesh
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The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
— John Hay
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A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an…
— Johannes Kepler
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It's the same with all the thoughts and feelings and other experiences that arise in the ocean of ourselves. The ocean never…
— Suzanne Segal
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
— Walter Scott
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This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings…
— Pope Paul VI
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I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of…
— Albert Einstein
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Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
— Ovid
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