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Never, never, never think - th...

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Anything that provides you wit...

Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Comfort makes you weaker. We n...

Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Umberto Eco is the owner of a ...

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Read books are far less valuab...

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

To succeed in life requires a ...

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Character is proportionate to ...

Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

It was obvious that their prof...

It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

My nightmare scenario is that ...

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Financial institutions have be...

Financial institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology is swelling into gigantic, incestuous, bureaucratic banks-when one fails, they all fall ... We have moved from a diversified ecology of small banks, with varied lending policies, to a more homogeneous framework of firms that all resemble one another. True, we now have fewer failures, but when they occur ... I shiver at the thought.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

People who forecast simply bec...

People who forecast simply because 'that's my job,' knowing pretty well that their forecast is ineffectual, are not what I would call ethical. What they do is no different from repeating lies simply because 'it's my job.'

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

The government-sponsored insti...

The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest hiccup. But not to worry: their large staff of scientists deemed these events 'unlikely.'

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

We have this culture of financ...

We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

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Janet Yellen at the FED is equ...

Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.

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We tend to use knowledge as th...

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

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Never take advice from someone...

Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Experience is devoid of the ch...

Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Being an entrepreneur is an ex...

Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

You find peace by coming to te...

You find peace by coming to terms with what you don't know.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Don't read newspapers for the ...

Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....