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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.”
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

  • #2
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.”
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

  • #3
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see”
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

  • #4
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up”
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  • #5
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.”
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    tags: fact

  • #6
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

  • #7
    John Green
    “One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #8
    Brandi L. Bates
    “Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a river...that's romance.”
    Brandi L. Bates, Soledad

  • #9
    Roald Dahl
    “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl



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