We laugh at others and we don't realize that someone will b… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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We laugh at others and we don't realize that someone will be just as justified in laughing at us on some not too remote day

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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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