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Anton Onyshchenko

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“Those who talk should do and only those who do should talk.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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“Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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“The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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“English “manners” were imposed on the middle class as a way of domesticating them, along with instilling in them the fear of breaking rules and violating social norms.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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