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Socrates used to walk around the house delaying his meal as he held that hunger was the best seasoning. () Fasting can turn any meal into a Michelin 3 star.

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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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