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“Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur”

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
tags: modern-values, modernity, post-modern, post-modernism, values, values-in-life
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