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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)

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"Antifragile is an interesting concept (order which becomes stronger by integrating disorder). I just have a had time with Taleb is he is sometimes too much of a contrarian, and tryint too hard to sell this concept. I'm not looking to be sold something, just looking to find out whats true." — 22 hours, 48 min ago

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The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

by Mark Twain

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My Life and Hard Times

by James Thurber

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Bakunin’s Quotes

“It is the first fashionable party I ever attended." "Well," said Dick, "I haven't attended many. When I was a boot-black I found it interfered with my business, and so I always declined all the fashionable invitations I got.”
― Horatio Alger Jr., Ragged Dick : Complete Series (10 books) - Ragged Dick, Fame and Fortune, Mark the Match Boy, Rough and Ready and many more

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“The goddess Fortune is mad, blind, and stupid, some philosophers maintain. They declare that she stands upon a revolving globe of stone; whither Chance impels this stone, thither, they say, does Fortune fall. She is blind, they repeat, for that she fails wholly to perceive whereto she attaches herself. Moreover they declare that she is mad because she is cruel, uncertain, and inconstant; stupid because she knows not how to tell worthy from unworthy.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium

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“People don’t fight because they want different things; they fight because mimetic desire causes them to want the same things.”
― Luke Burgis, Wanting: Mimetic Desire: How to Avoid Chasing Things You Don't Truly Want

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“Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems. A person’s toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills a million people. A boil on one’s neck interests one more than forty earthquakes in Africa. Think of that the next time you start a conversation. PRINCIPLE 4-Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. ��”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie: Building Lasting Relationships and Achieving Success

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“Just as I was leaving the hospital, I saw a soldier sitting on a box near the dressing station. I stopped and said to him, “What is the matter with you, boy?” He said, “Nothing; I just can’t take it.” I asked what he meant. He said, “I just can’t take being shot at.” I said, “You mean that you are malingering here?” He burst into tears and I immediately saw that he was an hysterical case. I, therefore, slapped him across the face with my glove and told him to get up, join his unit, and make a man of himself, which he did. Actually, at the time he was absent without leave.”
― George S. Patton Jr., War As I Knew It

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