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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.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
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Journalist
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St. Louis
Missouri
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Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
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Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.
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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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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read
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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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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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Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.
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Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
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To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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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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Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.
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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 recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
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A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
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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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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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Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
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What women want is what men want. They want respect.
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Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.
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