"Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum"

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Average Quotes #Maximum Quotes

“Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.”

Source : "Foo Fighter Fires Back" by Nate Mendel, www.motherjones.com. October 03, 2000.
“The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.”
“I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.”
“In life, a person will come and go from many homes. We may leave a house, a town, a room, but that does not mean those places leave us. Once entered, we never entirely depart the homes we make for ourselves in the world. They follow us, like shadows, until we come upon them again, waiting for us in the mist.”

Source : Ari Berk (2011). “Death Watch”, p.266, Simon and Schuster
“To see what they see, sit where they sit.”
“What I've realized is that when I walk into a club, I don't feel good, I feel uncomfortable. I wonder what to do, I look for my drink... it's not necessarily an enjoyable experience, so why would I put myself through that?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.”
“When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.”

Source : "The Church Times" by The Diocese, Volumes 8-10, p. 189, 1897.

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