Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
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I'm obsessed with Juice Press - they're everywhere. I spend so much money at that place it's crazy.
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I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.
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Food service is a growth area for PepsiCo.
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The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!
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Product pricing is aligned to the way customers want to acquire their solutions and are delivered via different delivery models including appliances, the cloud, or as on-premise software solutions.
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Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.
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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
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I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like hard-core gay activists) who profane sacred ground do not have the imagination to educate the young. … Until the left comes to its senses about the cultural power of religion, the right will continue to broaden its appeal.
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As China is the one nation with the size, population, ideology and power to contest the United States for hegemony in Asia, is war inevitable? Answer: No more inevitable than was war between Germany and Great Britain in 1914.
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We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
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I feel like, sometimes, plus-size women get scared to show skin... but summer is the time that we can enjoy doing that.
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I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.
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People have come to this country from everywhere, and people from everywhere have made America great. Our immigration policy should reflect that truth, and our elected officials, including our President, should respect it.
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A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.
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It's something in me, deep down, that makes me different in a race.
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We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.
