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While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
Columnist
Journalist
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Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
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Speakers
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Nearly
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Literature
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What women want is what men want. They want respect.
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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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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
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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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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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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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Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
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Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
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Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
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To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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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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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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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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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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Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.
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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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A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.
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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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Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.
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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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