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"When you depart from standard probability, you completely lose track of its limits"

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“Never ask a barber if you need a haircut”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“What we call here a Black Swan is an event with the following three attributes: rarity, ex...”

“The Black Swan is the new bird at dawn”

“True success is exiting some very chancy risks”

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“You are what you believe yourself to be.”

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die ...”

“When [competitors are] in the shower in the morning, they're thinking about how they're go...”

“If his forces are united, separate them.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.”

“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become.”