Read nothing from the past one hundred years; eat no fruits from the past one thousand years; drink nothing… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Read nothing from the past one hundred years; eat no fruits from the past one thousand years; drink nothing from the past four thousand years (just wine and water); but talk to no ordinary man over forty.
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