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“It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs them later.”
― Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier

“It is just that narrative can be lethal when used in the wrong places.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“between one-third and one-half of all marriages fail,”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“I propose that if you want a simple step to a higher form of life, as distant from the animal as you can get, then you may have to denarrate, that is, shut down the television set, minimize time spent reading newspapers, ignore the blogs. Train your reasoning abilities to control your decisions; nudge System 1 (the heuristic or experiential system) out of the important ones. Train yourself to spot the difference between the sensational and the empirical. This insulation from the toxicity of the world will have an additional benefit: it will improve your well-being.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable