Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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• I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Plan
  • Push

• It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • Want
  • Scared

• Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • Book
  • Fun

• I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Love
  • Come
  • Excuse

• I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Wife
  • Child
  • Lucky

• In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Help
  • Couple
  • Weird

• I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Always
  • Red
  • Liked

• My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Faith

• I like how the other guys are stepping up. If we keep this up, then Bell does not have to score 25 points a game for us to win.

  

  Pat Williams
  • Up
  • Game
  • Win

• Modeling is great because I don't have lines to memorize. But I find acting much more challenging - which is a good thing!

  

  Candace Kita
  • Good
  • Great
  • Acting

• Alike and Equal are not the same.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle

• Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• veritas norma sui et falsi est

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• While the final decision as to the use of my body remains with PETA, I make the following suggested directions:

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Decision

• The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was handed me a few days since by Senator Sumner. Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Children
  • Persons

• Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • God
  • Christ
  • Triumph

• Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Slavery
  • Weed
  • Soil

• One seed becomesAn everlasting song, a singing tree,Caroling softly souls of slavery,What they were, and what they are to me,Caroling softly souls of slavery.

  

  Jean Toomer
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Tree

• Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Slavery
  • Fancy
  • Experts

• Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Slavery