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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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Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
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Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
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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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Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.
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Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.
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The lower our self-esteem, the more we're attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves.
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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
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The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
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The magnitude of an action may change not only the strength of its impact, but the direction. If you became a dentist, for example, you would certainly be an asset to our society. But what if everyone became a dentist? Who would bake the bread? Who would build the houses?
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An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.
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Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
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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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Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds.
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Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.
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Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
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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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A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
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Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them
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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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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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