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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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Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
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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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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 which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
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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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If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
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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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Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them
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If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.
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An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed an act of vengeance writes one of its own
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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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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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Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.
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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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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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It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.
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Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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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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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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Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
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