“Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 21

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