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“The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

“Variations also act as purges. Small forest fires periodically cleanse the system of the most flammable material, so this does not have the opportunity to accumulate. Systematically preventing forest fires from taking place 'to be safe' makes the big one much worse.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“What matters isn’t what a person has or doesn’t have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

“All climate change is governed by uncertainty, mostly the uncertainty of human action—what action will be taken, and when, to avert or forestall the dramatic transformation of life on the planet that will unfold in the absence of dramatic intervention.”

— David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth

“Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

“Seeking asylum is NOT illegal.”

— Ilhan Omar, Asylum

“I had to adjust my imagination and wonder how to make things stronger.”

— Theo Jansen , You make a mistake and you learn. And then you can climb up the ladder

“t Playboy’s height of influence in the 1960s and early 1970s, it was what we might consider the 1960s version of ‘woke.”

— Carrie Pitzulo, Can the Millennials Save Playboy?

“DoorDash, the food delivery start-up, said Thursday that it was buying Caviar, a rival service, for $410 million in a deal that escalates the already intense competition in food delivery.”

— Erin Griffith, DoorDash Buys a Rival, Caviar, for $410 Million

“I seem to have been born with an aptitude for a way of life that was doomed.”

— Wendell Berry, The World-Ending Fire

““So what, were you trying to get with this guy?” Lynne asked after a long silence. They left town about an hour and a half ago and she still felt too high to be driving.”

— Jeremy Alderman, Never Stop Your Car On KS-77 Near Breckenridge. Never.

“As Williamson has gained visibility, some of her past comments have become a major source of criticism, especially those regarding mental health and vaccines.”

— Yahoo Newes, Is it time to take Marianne Williamson seriously?

“When I think about things that grow that wildly and that successfully, I don’t think of a media company ― I think of cancer.”

— Esther Bergdahl, The Fall Of Mic Was A Warning

“There are very few people I trust to go high enough over my ramp channel for me to zoom past underneath, and Shaun White is one of them.”

— Tony Hawk, Watch Shaun White And Tony Hawk Skate Together

“New research is showing the profound benefits—for weight, longevity and fighting disease—of eating only during limited hours.”

— Andreas Michalsen, The Fasting Cure Is No Fad

“Fans of a popular Chinese video blogger who called herself "Your Highness Qiao Biluo" have been left stunned after a technical glitch during one of her live-streams revealed her to be a middle-aged woman and not the young glamorous girl they thought her to be.”

— BBC, Glitch reveals young vlogger as middle-aged

“So we back in the mine Got our pickaxe swinging from side to side Side-side to side This task, a grueling one Hope to find some diamonds tonight, night, night Diamonds tonight”

— CaptainSparklez, CaptainSparklez

“It's better if I try not to talk about the shit that's always on my mind.”

— Kevin Abstract, I BEEN BORN AGAIN

“Long awaited, and long postponed by her label: Lana del Rey’s “Norman F**cking Rockwell!” is dropping on August 30th. It’s about f**cking time!”

— showbiz411, Lana Del Rey’s Long Awaited, Long Postponed Album “Norman F**cking Rockwell!” Drops August 30th

“You're, like, half a retard. You dropped out of school at 20, and now you're a gangster. What are you, like, fucking Tony Montana? What's the plan? Hmm? You gonna be living in a mansion, fuckin' pet tigers and shit? Go fuck yourself.”

— Jennifer Morrison, Sam Levinson, Augustine Frizzell, Pippa Bianco, Nate Jacobs, Jacob Elordi, The Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Pee While Depressed