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{{quote|Only a nasty, twisted mind like mine would think that he had been a German agent in Crete, became known to the Allies as a fifth columnist, lost his usefulness to the Germans and was shipped back to Navarone by fast motor-launch under cover of night.
{{quote|Only a nasty, twisted mind like mine would think that he had been a German agent in Crete, became known to the Allies as a fifth columnist, lost his usefulness to the Germans and was shipped back to Navarone by fast motor-launch under cover of night.
|'''Dusty Miller''', ''[[The Guns of Navarone]]'' }}
|'''Dusty Miller''', ''[[The Guns of Navarone]]'' }}

{{quote|I have shown that, unless one has an overblown and (as with Greek columns), a very unrealistic representation of some tail risks, one cannot survive – all it takes is a single event for the irreversible exit from among us. Is selective paranoia “irrational” if those individuals and populations who don’t have it end up dying or extinct, respectively?
| '''Nassim Nicholas Taleb''', ''[https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-be-rational-about-rationality-432e96dd4d1a How to be Rational about Rationality]'' }}


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