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没人愿意被一眼看透，无论是被别人，还是被自己。
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(1) 我需要澄清的是，这方面有时也有例外，就好像妓女有时也会爱上嫖客一样。
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(2) 慷慨之举应该是不追求任何回报的，无论是在经济上、社会上还是感情上。这样的举动应该是义务性的（无条件地履行责任），非功利性的（追求集体的——甚至是个人的——收获与回报）。“慷慨”的施予会让施予者感到内心温暖，甚至得到救赎，这没有问题；然而，这样的举动不应该跟纯粹发自责任感的义务性举动相混淆。
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随机生存的智慧：黑天鹅语录 PRELUDES
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The person you are the most afraid to contradict is yourself.
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An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.
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Pharmaceutical companies are better at inventing diseases that match existing drugs, rather than inventing drugs to match existing diseases.
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To understand the liberating effect of asceticism, consider that losing all your fortune is much less painful than losing only half of it.
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To bankrupt a fool, give him information
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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.
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In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
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I suspect that they put Socrates to death because there is something terribly unattractive, alienating, and nonhuman in thinking with too much clarity.
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Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
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The test of originality for an idea is not the absence of one single predecessor, but the presence of multiple but incompatible ones.
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Modernity’s double punishment is to make us both age prematurely and live longer.
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An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant, the opposite.
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Your brain is most intelligent when you don’t instruct it on what to do— something people who take showers discover on occasion.
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If your anger decreases with time, you did injustice; if it increases, you suffered injustice.
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I wonder if those who advocate generosity for its rewards notice the inconsistency, or if what they call generosity is an attractive investment strategy.
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Those who think religion is about “belief” don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
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Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working; be selective about professions.
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In nature we never repeat the same motion; in captivity (office, gym, commute, sports), life is just repetitive stress injury. No randomness.
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Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
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