Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quote

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"L'imagination du génie dépasse largement son intellect; l'intellect de l'académique dépasse largement son imagination."

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“A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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