There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no o…

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full. ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, p.335, Random House
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