When a principle is strong and (you feel) imperative, every… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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When a principle is strong and (you feel) imperative, everything you do to justify it or rationalize it makes it weaker. Everything.

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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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