Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
Lamar Alexander
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
Patrick McHenry
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel Kant
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
R. Kelly
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The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.
Dan Castellaneta
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
Warren Giles
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Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.
J. R. Moehringer
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
Carl Icahn
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
Pat Buchanan
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
Wendell Willkie
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
Tabitha Soren
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I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
Gary Oldman
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Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.
Veerappa Moily
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
Xenophon
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
Tavi Gevinson
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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