Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
It is the asymmetry of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.
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My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
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The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.
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I am forever learning and changing.
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I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.
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I love corduroys, because they are really comfy and they're cozier than jeans. They come in nice autumn hues - colors that you can have fun with.
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He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is panhuman. I had met him on Earth, and on Hain, and on Ollul. I expect to meet him in Hell.
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This program is not a place where personal opinion should be mixed up with ascertainable facts...It is not, I think, humanly possible for any reporter to be completely objective, for we are all to some degree prisoners of our education, travel, reading-the sum total of our experience.
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YouTube's algorithm doesn't know what's going on in the world.
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Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
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One great worker equals three not-so-great workers, so it's worth paying terrific people not just for today but to find people that we think have upward mobility to become tomorrow's leaders.
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A lot of factors go into the longevity of a show.
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Whatever the eventual judgment, the political implications of Hutton are already clear. A devastating indictment of Labour in power - and of our political system itself.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.
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I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.
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It is the asymmetry of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.
