Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.

Joanna Lumley

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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.

John Burroughs

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A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.

John Carmack

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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

John Locke

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It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

Robert Smith

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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

Mike Krzyzewski

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If we are going to conduct a population-centric strategy in Afghanistan, and we are perceived as backing thugs, then we are just undermining ourselves.

Michael T. Flynn

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I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.

China Machado

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In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.

Christine Vachon

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When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on.

Antonio Damasio

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In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.

Annie Lennox

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When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.

William Sanderson

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