"Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system."

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Confusion Quotes

“Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 177), 1895.
“The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I race to win, not to please people”
“An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.”
“Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves”
“The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The mainstream press was not aggressive enough after 9/11, was not aggressive enough in asking questions about a decision to go to war in Iraq, was not aggresive enough in asking the hard questions about the War on Terror. I accept that for the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.”

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