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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
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Love without sacrifice is like theft
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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True, our knowledge does grow, but it is threatened by greater increases in confidence, which make our increase in knowledge at the same time an increase in confusion, ignorance, and conceit.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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