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The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
Luck is the grand equalizer.
Only the autodidacts are free.
Ideas come and go, stories stay.
History doesn't crawl; it leaps.
Rationalism crashes in the tails.
Information is bad for knowledge.
Remember that you are a Black Swan.
What kills me makes others stronger.
Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
Love without sacrifice is like theft
We tend to use knowledge as therapy.
You need a story to displace a story.
Political life loves some volatility.
Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
...maximize the serendipity around you.
For the robust, an error is information.
To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
What I learned on my own I still remember
Things always become obvious after the fact
I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.
Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.
[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.
Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile
I have never had personal debt and never will.
An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
It's harder to say 'no' when you really mean it.
Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.
I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.
Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
You never win an argument until they attack your person.
The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.
Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.
If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
You find peace by coming to terms with what you don't know.
Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner.
The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.
It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.
