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Alexander said that it was preferable to have an army of sheep led by a lion than an army of lions led by a sheep.

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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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