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You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship…

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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.…
Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or…
Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities…
...maximize the serendipity around you.
Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be…
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these…
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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You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done - but simply because you… — Max Lucado
Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to… — Arthur Miller
You exist in time, but you belong to eternity. — Rajneesh
You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist. — Barry Long
"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man,… — Douglas Adams
So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Don't watch Kroll Show if you don't have a Nielsen box. I honestly don't care. Feel free to DVR it and not… — Nick Kroll
You exist in time: future, present, and past. This is manifest in life, liberty, and the product of your life and liberty.… — Ken Schoolland
Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don't know where you are going or why you are going, go in… — Arthur Rimbaud
You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Social media is that daily feed that reminds people that you exist and it has to be as transparent and true as… — Unknown Author
When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist — Friedrich Schiller

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