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"In your prayers substitute "protect us from evil" with "protect us from those who improve things for a salary"." - @nntaleb

"Nothing is more permanent than “temporary” arrangements, deficits, truces, and relationships; and nothing is more temporary than “permanent” ones." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"The idea of #skininthegame is that people judged by reality and P/L, instead of peers or supervisors, are vastly more open-minded." - Nassim Taleb

"Some only find expression as part of mob shaming, when SAFE to do so, & in the bargain, think that they are displaying virtue. Not virtue." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"I am fighting for the rest of the world, particularly the US, to have the fractal, bottom-up properties & the governance of CHF." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #localism

"Solution for the Christmas binge: Fast 45 hours, visit the gym during the fast, and you are done." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #christmas

"To figure out how well you will do 10 years from now relative to someone else, count your enemies, count his, and square the ratio." - @nntaleb

"It is quite a predicament to be both evil and risk averse." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"It is not possible to have fun when you try." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #wisdom

"Never show a risk number, even if it is right." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #risk

"Socialism, def: a political system where decisions are made by people with advanced degrees in social "science"." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #socialism

"A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"The sucker problem is to think that those for whom you feel compassion would also feel compassion for those weaker and more afflicted than they are." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Different people rarely mean the same thing by religion. Nor do they realise it. For early Jews & Muslims, religion was law. ‘Deen’ is law in Hebrew, religion in Arabic. " - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"I treat my friends as temporary pre-enemies, my enemies as temporary pre-friends, and my post-friends as permanent enemies. The Bed of Procrustes" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Perhaps the wise one is the one who knows that he cannot see things far away." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Black Swan

"Progress, like evolution, must be neither too slow nor too fast. Too slow means extinction from lack of adaptation. Too fast prevents retaining the benefits of past improvements, hence, again, extinction." - Nassim Taleb #progress

"Never hire an A student unless it is to take exams." - @nntaleb