Being arrogant towards a fraudster in power = iconoclast. Being arrogant towards a regular person = psychologist. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Peace without justice is just submission.

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The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality without exploiting them for fun and profit.

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With regular books, read the text and skip the footnotes; with those written by academics, read the footnotes and skip the text; and with business books, skip both the text and the footnotes.

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