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Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
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St. Louis
Missouri
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Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
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How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others.
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...there are days when I feel I can do anything and days when I feel I can do nothing. But fortunately for those around me, neither sort occurs very often.
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Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.
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Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
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Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
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Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
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Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.
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One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.
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Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
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Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.
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Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.
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Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
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Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
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A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.
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One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.
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It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.
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Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
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Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
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Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.
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