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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“If you want to get an idea of a friend's temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Thomas Pynchon
“What was “walking on water,” if it wasn’t Bible talk for surfing?”
Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“I know that history is going to be dominated by an improbable event, I just don’t know what that event will be.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Humans will believe anything you say provided you do not exhibit the smallest shadow of diffidence; like animals, they can detect the smallest crack in your confidence before you express it. The trick is to be as smooth as possible in personal manners. It is much easier to signal self-confidence if you are exceedingly polite and friendly; you can control people without having to offend their sensitivity.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Hannah Arendt
“The ideals of homo faber, the fabricator of the world, which are permanence, stability, and durability, have been sacrificed to abundance, the ideal of the animal laborans.”
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

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