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• It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.

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• The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

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• Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

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• The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history.

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• We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

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• Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.

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• Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

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• Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

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• A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

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• The opposite of manliness isn’t cowardice; it’s technology.

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• Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

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• The worst thing one can do to feel one knows things a bit deeper is to try to go into them a bit deeper.

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• Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.

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• We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

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• Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum.

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• The classical man’s worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man’s worst fear is just death.

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• My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism.

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• True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing.

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• Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

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• A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (37)

Birth:	1960
Nationality:	American, Lebanese
Profession:	Author, Essayist, Professor, Researcher, Statistician

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