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“One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip to the store caused the winning?” quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — Download Open image

““One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip to the store caused the winning?””

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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