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When American history was first written, it featured and often celebrated politicians, military leaders, inventors, explorers, and other “great men.” Textbooks in high school and college credited those goliaths with creating all the
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“Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free”
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“Love without sacrifice is like theft”
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“The opposite of manliness isn’t cowardice; it’s technology.”
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.”
― I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains
― I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains
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