If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
From Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.
When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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