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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes: Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
         

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.


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