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" Paul Krugman is a danger to society! "

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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" We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment. "

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" If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing. "

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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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" Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all. "

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" In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged. "

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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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" 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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" What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society. "

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" Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China. "

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" Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer. "

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" You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity. "

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" The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism. "

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" I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it. "

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" I have never had personal debt and never will. "

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" The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in. "

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" Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right. "

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" I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile. "

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" Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal. "

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" Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things. "

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" You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades. "

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" Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly. "

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" Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well. "

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" You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. "

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" Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete. "

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" The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge. "

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