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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
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St. Louis
Missouri
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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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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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Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
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One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.
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Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
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Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.
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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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If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.
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Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
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Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
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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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I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
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Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
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Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
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You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.
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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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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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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 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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