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The Bed of Procrustes
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms | Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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With fifty percent more material than the hardcover, this expanded edition of The Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb�s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, (…more)
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GoneFishing

Love without sacrifice is like theft.

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GoneFishing

You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

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GoneFishing

Engineers can compute but not define, mathematicians can define but not compute, economists can neither define nor compute.

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GoneFishing

Over the long term, you are more likely to fool yourself than others.

Izai.Amorim So true! 8y
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GoneFishing

Pharmaceutical companies are better at inventing diseases that match existing drugs, rather than inventing drugs to match existing diseases.

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GoneFishing

Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.

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GoneFishing

You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.

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GoneFishing

Universities have been progressing from providing scholarship for a small fee into selling degrees at a large cost.

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GoneFishing

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete wth anyone in any of your pursuits.

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GoneFishing

Life's beauty: the kindest act toward you in your life may come from an outsider not interested in reciprocation.

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GoneFishing

It is those who use others who are the most upset when someone uses them.

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GoneFishing

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds