I trust everyone except those who tell me they are trustworthy. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Most feed their obsessions by trying to get rid of them.

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It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

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Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

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