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Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
Columnist
Journalist
Playwright
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Positivity
Health
Feeling
Feelings
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Thinking

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Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.
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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 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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When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.
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Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you
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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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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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To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.
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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
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The lower our self-esteem, the more we're attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves.
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What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom to and freedom from.
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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 draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.
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What women want is what men want. They want respect.
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I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.
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Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
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A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
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Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.
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Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.
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