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"Time spent on revenge is never wasted." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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"Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

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"Well kept secret: for selfowned people, unlike the rest, the ability to make money (hence make decisions) does not really decline with age." - Nassim Taleb #SecretWisdom

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"People don't like it when you ask them for help; they also feel left out when you don't ask them for help." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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"One of the problems with social networks is that it is getting harder and harder for others to complain about you behind your back." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

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"People feel totally lost (& deep anxiety) finding out that someone they held for stupid is actually more intelligent than they are." - @nntaleb

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"Progress is almost never linear. Ups and downs and bursts." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #progress

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"The ancient Mediterranean : before monotheism, people changed and exchanged rites and gods as we do with ethnic food." - @nntaleb

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"To bankrupt a fool, give him information." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

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"The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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"If you do not take risks for your opinion, you are nothing." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Skin in the Game

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"You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement." - @nntaleb

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"Never take an advice from a salesman, or any advice that benefits the advice giver." - @nntaleb

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"Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother." - @nntaleb

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"We find it to be in extremely bad taste for individuals to boast of their accomplishments; but when countries do so we call it “national pride.”" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

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"Public companies, like human cells, are programmed for apoptosis, suicide through debt and hidden risks. Bailouts invest the process with a historical dimension." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

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"Technology can degrade (and endanger) every aspect of a sucker’s life while convincing him that it is becoming more “efficient.”" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

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"The natural benefit of a cell phone, laptop, and other indispensable modern items is the joy one gets finding the object after losing it." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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"You remember emails you sent that were not answered better than emails that you did not answer." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

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"Isocrates' Dynamic #SkinInTheGame Conduct yourself toward your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves toward you." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb