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Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Writer | Mathematical Statistician | Essayist | Black Swan |

“Love without sacrifice is like theft”

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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing.

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I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

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People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up.

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Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone.

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The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

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My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal.

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People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up.

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When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

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Only the autodidacts are free.

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Remember that you are a Black Swan.

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When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

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To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

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Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of absence.

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If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

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Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

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When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

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Only the autodidacts are free.

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What I learned on my own I still remember.

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People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up.

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Remember that you are a Black Swan.