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

Marilyn vos Savant

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
Columnist
Journalist
Playwright
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Literature
Funny
Sense
Enough
Extend
Time
Witty
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Skills

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An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.
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I love having ten times as much stuff to do as I can possibly find time to do. That way, I can pick the one-tenth that I want to do most. But if I only have enough to just occupy all my time, I'm stuck doing all of whatever stuff it happens to be.
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Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
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An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed an act of vengeance writes one of its own
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To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.
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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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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
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Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.
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Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
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Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.
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A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
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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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Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
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The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
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I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly because serious art takes so much time and energy and talent to produce-in favor of what I call `impulse art': art work that is quick and easy, at least by comparison.
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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
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If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
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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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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read
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