Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
Patricia Richardson
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
Radha Mitchell
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
H. L. Mencken
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
Lady Gaga
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
Walt Disney
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
Dan Hill
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Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.
Kitty Kelley
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So we have a commitment to the business and to its people.
John Kluge
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We protest to our last breath against the purveyors of hatred, cruelty and violence.
Ephraim Mirvis
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I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
Jose Saramago
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Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
