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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You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.
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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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We need to let the country open up and let the people have a moment of enjoyment, have a better life. When you ask me to be hopeful, I’m hopeful because it’s a young country, it’s a young population. It’s energetic, and that drives me. That gives me hope, that makes me young. That makes me want to believe in this country and in this town. It’s such a wonderful place to be.
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I wasn't funny. My brother was the funny one in the family.
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We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.
