"Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well." — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well."
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219 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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…
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Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a…
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Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in…
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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…
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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…
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the…
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Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades).…
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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…
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More Austerity Quotes
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People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through…
— David Cameron
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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no…
— Chanakya
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The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for…
— George Monbiot
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If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next…
— Len McCluskey
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HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss…
— Ambrose Bierce
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In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy.…
— Nigel Farage
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The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.
— Unknown Author
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I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities.…
— Christopher Hitchens
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We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.
— Bill Gross
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On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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