"Every social association that is not face-to-face is……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health."
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219 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site.
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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 Association Quotes
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
— Hannah Arendt
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I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill…
— Michele Bachmann
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Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.…
— Mortimer Adler
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Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
— Harry Browne
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Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules…
— Vince Cable
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I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.
— Herman Cain
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Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I…
— Herman Cain
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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.
— George Clooney
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What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than…
— Susan B. Anthony
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