"Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending"

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Thinking Quotes #Addiction Quotes #Greed Quotes

“I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12”
“Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.”
“As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 8, 2011.
“If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.”
“Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to organize and exploit distractions, to make of them, because of their economic importance, the core and vital center of human life, to idealize them as the highest manifestations of mental activity. Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system”
“Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.”

Source : Deborah Wiles (2016). “Countdown”, p.166, Scholastic Inc.
“I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We're all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day.”
“Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.”

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