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Some Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
- In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.
- It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
- The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither
- Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
- Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life;…
- Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic…
- The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
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- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
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