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" I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush. "
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
God
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" If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side. "
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" Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all. "
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" I'm a private intellectual, not a public one. "
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" What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats. "
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" The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it. "
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" I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge. "
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" Paul Krugman is a danger to society! "
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" I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries. "
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" We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that. "
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" I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus. "
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" I have never had personal debt and never will. "
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" I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water. "
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" Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them. "
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" Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say. "
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" What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society. "
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" A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers. "
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" The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely. "
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" Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete. "
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" It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement. "
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" There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same. "
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" In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense. "
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" Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well. "
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" We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like. "
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" A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation. "
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" You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. "
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" Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom. "
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" People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable. "
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