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It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Able
Does
Lead
Might
Necessarily
Often
Peace
Predict
Tension
Useful
War
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I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Anyone
Banks
Been
Bombs
Conservative
Convincing
Listen
Sit
Telling
Tendency
Themselves
Time
While
Willing
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
About
Gullible
Most
People
Things
Wrong
Wrong Things
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Day
Find
Hope
Keep
Most
Say
So-Called
Some
Something
Writers
Writing
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Also
Because
Body
Builds
Case
Disorder
Evolution
Gain
Going
Grow
Gym
Makes
Nature
Occasional
Starvation
Stronger
Subject
Them
Things
Uses
You
Your
Your Body
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Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Advice
Anyone
Ask
Bankrupt
Broker
General
Money
Never
Never Take
Take
Tie
War
You
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Confuse
Ever
Lack
Never
Stability
Think
Volatility
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Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Agree
Agreeing
Click
Computer
Computer Screen
Down
Know
Nobody
Reads
Roll
Screen
You
Your
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Danger
Paul
Society
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Employed
Even
Financial
Institutions
Interesting
Likable
More
People
Rarely
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People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Beirut
Denial
Everybody
Gravity
How
Including
Lasted
Learned
Lebanon
Left
Oh
One Of The Things
Parents
People
Problem
Said
Situations
Started
Temporary
Tend
Things
Underestimate
War
Who
Work
Years
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Clearly
Emotional
Like
Loneliness
Others
Poverty
Source
Suffering
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
About
Bill
Bill Gates
Children
College
Education
Emphasis
Enjoy
Finish
Formal
Formal Education
Gates
Grades
Jobs
Learning
Mark
Mark Zuckerberg
Much
Placed
Steve
Steve Jobs
Too
Too Much
Worry
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
About
Absence
Defines
External
Feeling
Honour
Metric
Morally
Newspaper
Shame
Some
Success
Success Is
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The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Accumulate
American
American People
Deficit
Eventually
Find
Get
Hurt
Much
People
Problem
Solution
Too
Too Much
Will
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Academics
Another
Best
Corrupted
Had
Job
Philosophers
Philosophy
Were
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Bear
Debts
Grandchildren
Grandparents
Should
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Amount
Because
Ever
Far
Get
Global
Got
Guy
Harmful
Information
Internet
Likely
Makes
Marketplace
More
Much
Noise
Sense
Small
Technology
Times
Too
Too Much
Web
Which
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The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Anything
Cheap
Had
Key
Matter
Once
Think
Watches
Wealth
Wear
You
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The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Clear
Consumers
Crisis
Doing
Instance
Know
Lending
Mortgage
Needed
People
Predatory
Protection
Were
Who
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