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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Alternative
Economics
Empirical
Healers
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Make
Scientific
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Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Airline
Because
Bigger
Building
Crash
Crashes
Died
Effectively
Every
Every Time
Failed
Failure
Improved
Industry
Lives
Lowered
Next
Nothing
People
Plane
Probability
Safety
Saved
Saves
Ships
System
Time
Titanic
Vain
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For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Commuting
Convenient
Day
Make
Many
Minor
More
Part
People
Policies
Reduce
Straightforward
Suffering
Way
Widespread
Worst
Would
Would-Be
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Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fragility
Quality
Things
Volatility
Vulnerable
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Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
China
Christmas
Created
Fragility
Globalization
History
Layoffs
Meant
New
New York
No Time
Order
The History Of
Time
Universe
York
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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ever
Governments
Hardly
Reach
Shoot
Surplus
Try
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Am
Brooklyn
Concentration
Everywhere
Except
Happiest
Happy
I Am
I Am Happy
I See
Minimal
Places
Rich
See
Where
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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
Who
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
Personal
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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