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Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
Columnist
Journalist
Playwright
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St. Louis
Missouri
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Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
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Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.
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Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
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Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.
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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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To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.
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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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Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
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I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.
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Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
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What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom to and freedom from.
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What women want is what men want. They want respect.
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An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.
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Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
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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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