"The curse of modernity is…" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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La malédiction de la modernité est que nous sommes de plus en plus peuplés par une classe de personnes qui sont meilleures pour expliquer que pour comprendre

Nassim Nicholas Taleb Essayist, scholar, and risk analyst

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