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“You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.”
― Anthony de Mello

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“These were the days before I decided to climb up the mountain, speak slowly and in a priestly tone, and try shaming people rather than insulting them.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

tags: humour

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“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
― Thomas Sowell, The Thomas Sowell Reader

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“If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: art, autism, details, intuition, nerd, nerdiness, nerds, poetry, wisdom, wisdom-vs-nerds

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“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

tags: improbability, life

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