Most people fear being without audiovisual stimulation because they are too repetitive when they think and imagine things on their own. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Most people fear being without audiovisual stimulation because they are too repetitive when they think and imagine things on their own.
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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