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A man is morally free when... he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. This is not just an aim but an obligation.

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A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.

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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

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A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.

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Ethical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession.

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I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.

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The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Born: 1960 (age 65)
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