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Davindra’s Quotes

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

tags: addiction, carbohydrates, diabesity, dr-hyman, dr-robert-lustig, labor, laboring-class, sugar, sugar-addiction, sugar-the-bitter-truth, wage, wage-slavery

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“Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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“Dreaming is a luxury and not everyone has it.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

tags: dreaming

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“I would rather read the best 100 books over and over again until I absorb them rather than read all the books”
― Naval Ravikant

tags: book-quotes

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“What matters isn’t what a person has or doesn’t have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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