Different people rarely mean the same thing by religion. No… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Different people rarely mean the same thing by religion. Nor do they realise it. For early Jews & Muslims, religion was law. 'Deen' is law in Hebrew, religion in Arabic.

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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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