"Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics."

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Men Quotes #Economics Quotes

“Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.”
“My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will endanger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake.”
“I stay on terra firma: the more firm, the less terror.”
“FACT: You CAN make money doing what you love! Even in a down economy!”
“There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.”
“Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.”
“My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity.”
“I dream about people who don't need to have sex to know they love each other.”

Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.59, Pan Macmillan

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