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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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Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.
— Ramsay MacDonald
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Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
— John Ruskin
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Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing…
— Helen Steiner Rice
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Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the…
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Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we…
— Susan Jacoby
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I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.
— Lisa Bonet
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Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but…
— W.C. Fields
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It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a…
— John Flavel
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As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance…
— Simon Newcomb
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It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water…
— Mehmet Oz
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...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
— Anne Frank
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