"Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making."

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Anxiety Quotes #Adequate Quotes #Relief Quotes

“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
“Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank me.”
“There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too.”

Source : Therese Anne Fowler (2013). “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.118, Macmillan
“Indifference breeds animosity.”
“My favorite part of my body is my brain. I think no matter what my body looks like I wont be satisfied unless I know how to use it.”
“The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.”
“Zuniga Hides the Evidence ... Like the craven coward he is, Markos Zuniga, rising young star of the Democrats, has now removed the page at Daily Kos where he wrote "Screw them" about the four Americans torn apart and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.”
“"We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction."”

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