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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Only the autodidacts are free.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
    tags: autodidact
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    tags: addiction, carbohydrates, diabesity, dr-hyman, dr-robert-lustig, labor, laboring-class, sugar, sugar-addiction, sugar-the-bitter-truth, wage, wage-slavery
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Love without sacrifice is like theft”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: compromise, love, manipulation, marriage, marriage-advice, narcissism, narcissists, passive-aggressive, passive-aggressiveness, real-love, relationships, sacrifice, true-love
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: femininity, liars, manipulation, men-and-women, narcissism, narcissists, politicians, politics, preachers, sociopathology, sociopaths, women
    295 likes

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    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
    tags: empaths, empathy, intuition, prophet, wisdom
    116 likes

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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
    tags: book, books, library, reading
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “First ethical rule: If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
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