Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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There’s always another problem behind the one you just solved. Does that mean that you should stop solving problems?
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It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid I was able to receive made my education possible.
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Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you as long as life and support you in death. Elevate your soul by prayer and by contemplation without mystical enthusiasm.
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Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design....
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Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.
