"Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing."

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Source : Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.8, Random House

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Academia Quotes #Enough Quotes #Surface Quotes

“A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.”
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
“You must come again when you have less time.”
“The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.”
“You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.”
“I root for all movies, but I especially root for good comic book movies. It's the best, most interesting genre going right now.”
“Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract.”
“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”

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