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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
Columnist
Journalist
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St. Louis
Missouri
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Education
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Life
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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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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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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 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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Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.
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