Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.
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The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
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I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.
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I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
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Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.
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There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
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In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.
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There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
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When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.
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I was definitely very much a country boy.
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I've realised that when fashion is really good and really challenges and takes a risk, it is incredibly artistically powerful. It makes people dream.
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Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record - not in these tough times for America. In the Senate he has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party.
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Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
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I don't think Obama is trying to take our guns, and I don't think we have to fight the government to keep them.
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My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
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A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.
