Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes About Age
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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
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Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
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I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.
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