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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.
Marilyn vos Savant
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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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Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.
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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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Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.
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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 decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.
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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
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The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
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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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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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Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
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The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
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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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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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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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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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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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Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
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