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Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

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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Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
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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 how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.
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If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
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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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I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.
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Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.
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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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Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.
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Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you
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If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.
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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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Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
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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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Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
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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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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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The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. The difference between an autobiography and an unauthorized biography is like the difference between an account of your life written by your mother and one written by your mother-in-law.
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Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
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Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.
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