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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.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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“I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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