I'd rather live in a society where people complain about la… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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I'd rather live in a society where people complain about lawyers than one in which they don't.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don’t have the guts to sometimes say: I don’t know....

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I'd rather live in a society where people complain about lawyers than one in which they don't. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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