"The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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“Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it.”
“When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation, he had lost what made him so beautiful and free....One out of every three mustangs captured in south west Texas was expected to die before they were tamed. The process often broke the spirits of the other two.”
“All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.”

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“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.”
“At a time of record energy prices, when we are trying to break the very addiction the president talked about in his speech, it does not make any sense to cut funding for energy efficiency programs and research.”
“Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.”
“Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.”
“Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.”

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