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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
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The Web is an unhealthy place for someone hungry for attention.
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I wonder if anyone ever measured the time it takes, at a party, before a mildly successful stranger who went to Harvard makes others aware of it.
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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.
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It is a good practice to always apologize, except when you have done something wrong.
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Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, noble, elegant, robust, and heroic life.
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Some, like most bankers, are so unfit for success, that they look like dwarves dressed in giants’ clothes.
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Don’t complain too loud about wrongs done you, you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies.
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Most feed their obsessions by trying to get rid of them.
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It is as difficult to change someone’s opinions as it is to change his tastes.
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I have the fondest memories of time spent in places called ugly, themost boring ones of places called scenic.
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Fitness is certainly the sign of strength, but outside of natural stimuli, the drive to acquire fitness can signal some deep incurable weakness.
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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them.
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Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
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They are born then put in a box, they go home to live in a box, they study by ticking boxes, they go to what is called “work” in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box, they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they go to the gym in a box to sit in a box; they talk about thinking “outside the box”; and when they die they are put in a box. All boxes, Euclidian, geometrically smooth boxes.
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Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.
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The 20th century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia. The 21st will be that of the technological one.
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Efforts at building social, political, and medical utopias have caused nightmares; many cures and techniques came from martial efforts.
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The Web’s “connectedness” creates a peculiar form of informational and pseudosocial promiscuity, which makes one feel clean after Web rationing.
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In most debates, people seem to be trying to convince one another; but all they can hope for is new arguments to convince themselves.
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随机生存的智慧：黑天鹅语录 诱人和不那么诱人的愚人问题
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那些在饭馆里争吵的夫妇，生活中最令人沮丧的一面是，他们几乎永远意识不到自己争吵的真正主题是什么。
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给别人提出最多建议的，正是那些最不成功的人，特别是在写作和财务方面。
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