The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
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The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
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The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
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The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds
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Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators
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The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.
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In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.
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Things always become obvious after the fact
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Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears
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In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. They get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations
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What I learned on my own I still remember
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Love without sacrifice is like theft
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