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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
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Thinking
Positivity
Health
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Feelings

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Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
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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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The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. The difference between an autobiography and an unauthorized biography is like the difference between an account of your life written by your mother and one written by your mother-in-law.
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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
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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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Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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What women want is what men want. They want respect.
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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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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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Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
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Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
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A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
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An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.
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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read
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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 describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
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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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Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.
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The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
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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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