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Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

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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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Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.
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Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.
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An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.
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Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.
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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read
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Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.
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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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I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
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Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.
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Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
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What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom to and freedom from.
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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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Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
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Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
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Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.
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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
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Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.
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I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don't take it personally. Instead, find out what's needed and fix it. If your girlfriend laughs at your tie, don't take it personally. Find another tie or find another girlfriend.
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Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
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Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
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