Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tags: politics women preachers manipulation liars men-and-women politicians narcissism femininity narcissists sociopathology sociopaths



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Love without sacrifice is like theft

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tags: love true-love marriage relationships manipulation sacrifice compromise narcissism marriage-advice passive-aggressive real-love narcissists passive-aggressiveness



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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tags: nerd nerds flirting game charm seduction nerdiness enfp-vs-intj



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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tags: education school academia



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They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tags: wisdom intelligence priorities values truths wealth-and-virtues modern-values



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When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tags: internet anger envy anger-management playerhaters civics the-internet



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People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tags: celebrity values sports role-models celebrities sportsmanship role-model celebrity-culture sportsman modern-values



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The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tags: slavery modern-society modern-life modernity modernity-is-a-sickness internet-addiction technology-addiction technology-enchantment



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Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tags: technology internet modernity-is-a-sickness internet-addiction technology-addiction technology-enchantment



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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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tags: wisdom art knowledge writing writers art-criticism insight critics music-criticism music-journalism



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