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" Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. "

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

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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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" 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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" When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters. "

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

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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 have never had personal debt and never will. "

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" Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to. "

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" You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept. "

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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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" All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options. "

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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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" 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. "

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