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My conclusion, from all of my extensive experience with the judicial system, is that you only have the rights that you can afford to pay an attorney to defend. That attorney used to say, “the law has nothing to do with justice, and justice ...more
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“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

Otto von Bismarck
“Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"
-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872”
Otto von Bismarck

Seraphim Rose
“It is clear that those who take scientific knowledge for the only truth, and deny what ties above it, are Nihilists [...]. Worship of the fact is by no means the love of truth; it is, as we have already suggested, its parody. It is the presumption of the fragment to replace the whole; it is the proud attempt to build a Tower of Babel, a collection of facts, to reach to the heights of truth and wisdom from below. But truth is only attained by bowing down and accepting what is received from above.”
Seraphim Rose, Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder

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