"Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it."

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Reputation Quotes

“In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.”
“I don't think I'm good, I don't think I'm a good rapper. I think a lot of people always want me to battle somebody and stuff like that which is cool, but I don't see myself as a rapper.”
“We need to do stuff we've always done, even though you might not like it.”

Source : "...and 11 things he wants from you" by Erik Parker, www.glamour.com. September 7, 2008.
“Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.”
“I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.”
“It is demonstrable from Geology that there was a period when no organic beings had existence: these organic beings must therefore have had a beginning subsequently to this period; and where is that beginning to be found, but in the will and fiat of an intelligent and all-wise Creator?”

Source : William Buckland (2003). “The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology”, p.49, Psychology Press
“Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.”
“Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection of body and spirit to canvas, over mind to canvas.”

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