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I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Doctor
Drink
Drop
Except
Go
Ill
India
Local
Very
Water
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Anyone
Anything
Bonus
Day
Every
Every Day
Goes
How
Increase
Know
Street
Thinking
Wall
Wall Street
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Work
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I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Crisis
Day
Days
I Think
Long
Only
Papers
Periods
Read
Reading
Regular
Short
Stopped
Think
Too
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I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Car
Consume
Drink
Drive
Electric
Food
Hybrid
Moving
Never
Only
Tap
Travelled
Water
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Because
Daydream
Hated
Liked
Me
School
Stop
System
Tried
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Debt
Had
Never
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Will
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Am
Bad
Develop
Heavy
Heavy Weights
I Am
Injuries
Lift
Severe
Sprint
Weights
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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 going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
About
Bye
Care
Disconnected
Financial
Financial System
Gave
Going
Idea
Longer
No Idea
OK
System
Thanks
Them
Totally
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
About
Am
Art
Fooled
I Am
Made
Markets
Number
Randomness
Religion
Select
Small
Things
Very
Want
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If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ask
Between
Confident
Correlation
Down
Feel
Going
Happens
High
How
Last
Lunch
Makes
Manhattan
Many
Number
Numbers
Out
Psychologically
Security
Social
Social Security
Take
Then
Those
Two
Write
You
Your
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Accounts
Catholic
Crusades
Deeply
Different
French
Going
Greek
Listen
Makes
Muslim
School
Side
Three
You
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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Banking
Lending
Likely
Negative
Outcomes
Surprise
You
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If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Dignity
Face
Fate
Grand
Makes
Nothing
Risks
Small
Take
You
Your
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Businesses
Capitalist
Charge
Favours
Owners
Still
Where
Who
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Intellectual
Private
Public
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Arrogance
Bush
Creator
Favour
George
George Bush
God
Greek
Human
Idea
Orthodox
Outside
Religion
Terms
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Callous
Designed
Entrepreneurial
Help
Help People
Mean
More
Net
People
Policy
Provide
Risks
Safety
Safety Net
Should
Social
Social Policy
Take
Them
Turn
Underprivileged
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In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Congress
Control
Corporation
Corporations
Delay
Does
Expense
Funeral
Large
Members
Our
Some
States
United
United States
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Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
About
Away
Crazier
Freedom
Individuals
Live
Money
More
Much
Plan
Put
Scenarios
Should
Than
Them
Then
Think
Will
World
You
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Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lead
Wealth
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