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They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

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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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Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute. — Jonathan Kellerman
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be… — Catharine MacKinnon
You can either stick to your goals, or you can just go through the motions and rest on your status. But it's… — Kristine Lilly
Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post… — Amy Jo Martin
Think about what it feels like when you interact with someone who makes you notice what's good about yourself (raising your status),… — David Rock
If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week. — Timothy Keller
How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven. — Robert A. Heinlein
If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude. — Nora Roberts
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're… — Marc Maron
With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to… — Thich Nhat Hanh

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