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I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Doctor Water Drop Local India Drink Except Go Very Ill
I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Work Day Every Day Every Thinking Increase Bonus Know How Wall Wall Street Goes Anyone Anything Who Street
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Capitalism People Mistakes Others About Adventurers Get Who Harm Harmed
If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You Risks Dignity Fate Face Nothing Small Take Makes Grand Your
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Loneliness Suffering Poverty Others Emotional Clearly Like Source
Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You Down Computer Computer Screen Nobody Know Click Reads Roll Screen Your Agree Agreeing
The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People Protection Crisis Consumers Instance Clear Mortgage Know Doing Were Predatory Lending Who Needed
Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Try Reach Surplus Governments Shoot Ever Hardly
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Democracy Well Austerity Very Handle Measures
Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates. Patrick Chappatte
Allah Some Charlie Obsessed Sort Felt Caused Lot Debates Provocation Screw Stance
Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe. Patrick Chappatte
People Free Some People Free Speech Able Some Only Because Fringe Moderate Speech
A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press. Patrick Chappatte
Work Women World Totalitarianism Way Press Arab Muslims Cartoons Only Veil Islamic Real Impose West Same Want Wants Views Radicals
We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust. Patrick Chappatte
Good History Guilt Good Taste Sense Our Through Learned Lines Taste
Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims. Patrick Chappatte
Today Fear Forcing Those Recognizing Muslims Taboos New Bloodshed Us
The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs. Patrick Chappatte
People World Challenge Internet Big Closed Live Society Increasingly Our Evolution Faces Only Open Also Read Big Challenge Due Where Communities Beliefs Things
Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity. Patrick Chappatte
War Stupidity Kind Cartoonists Except Involved Get Any Against
I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.' Patrick Chappatte
Think Charlie Obliged Feel Cover Any Show Media
The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well. Patrick Chappatte
Me You Internet Other Some Guys Well Empowered Us
No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism. Rabih Alameddine
Needs Racism Nationalism No-One Reminded Xenophobia Yes Soccer
I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic. Rabih Alameddine
Great Cute Great Literature About Taken Exotic Get Upset Literature
I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught. Rabih Alameddine
Shakespeare Read Because Were Taught
I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked. Rabih Alameddine
Good Problems Engineer Car Paper Never How Understood Math Loved Worked Mechanical Cared
Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality. Rabih Alameddine
Personality Simple Nobody Said Ever
Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself. Rabih Alameddine
Own Every Way Oneself Writer Motivate His Uses
Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am. Rabih Alameddine
Me Though Writer Part Nobody Calls Am Soccer Who Even Ever Play
As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West. Rabih Alameddine
Culture Teenagers Arabic Looked West Lot Did Just Want Us Much
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