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“The despotism of a government always increases with the strength of the army and its external successes, and the aggressiveness of a government increases with its internal despotism.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You

“The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“complex systems do not have obvious one-dimensional cause-and-effect mechanisms, and that under opacity, you do not mess with such a system.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“Conduct yourself toward your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves toward you.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life