Luke Middlebrook

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“A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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“You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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“History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, the generator of history.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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“People overvalue their knowledge and underestimate the probability of their being wrong.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

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“keeping one’s distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

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