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My father once told me: "Never antagonize Jesuits; their erudition is so wide and so deep they know things you'll never suspect they know."

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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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