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Gede Wahyu Prasetya

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“Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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“A turkey is fed for a thousand days by a butcher; every day confirms to its staff of analysts that butchers love turkeys “with increased statistical confidence.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

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“I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about—and the reader is no fool.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

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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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“My dear Socrates … you know why they are putting you to death? It is because you make people feel stupid for blindly following habits, instincts, and traditions. You may be occasionally right. But you may confuse them about things they’ve been doing just fine without getting in trouble. You are destroying people’s illusions about themselves. You are taking the joy of ignorance out of the things we don’t understand. And you have no answer; you have no answer to offer them.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

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