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  • I will study and prepare, and perhaps my chance will come. - Abraham Lincoln
  • To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
  • If you want success, figure out the price, and then pay it - Scott Adams
  • A hawk even if hungry, does not eat a grain; a warrior even if he hasn't eaten sports a toothpick. - Taira Shigesuke
  • When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. - William Shakespeare
  • When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • In the family of ideas there are no orphans. - Robert Cialdini
  • He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. - Joseph Conrad
  • The artificial gives us hangovers, the natural inverse-hangovers. The joys of post-exercise, breaking a fast, meeting a friend, helping someone in trouble, or humiliating an economist are examples of inverse hangovers. Antifragility = series of earned inverse hangovers. They don't come for free. - Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  • Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause. - Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  • This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters — you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity. - Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  • To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers. - Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  • The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today’s employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss. - Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  • Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, elegant, robust and heroic life. - Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  • Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant. - Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  • What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get. - Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  • Every hour wounds, the last one kills - Church of Saint Vincent, Urrugne, France
  • I am extremely anxious about the generation that is growing up literate but uneducated. They can read; they can write; they can pass examinations. But they are not really educated; they have nor formed; they have not developed. - Lee Kuan Yew
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