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What women want is what men want. They want respect.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
Columnist
Journalist
Playwright
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Ethics
Respect
Women
Men

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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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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
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Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.
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Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
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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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Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.
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Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
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Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.
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While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
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Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
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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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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read
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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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Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
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Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.
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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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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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Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.
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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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Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.
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