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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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The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
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Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
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If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.
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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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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
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Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
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Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.
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The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
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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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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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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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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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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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Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
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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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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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A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
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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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Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.
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Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.
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