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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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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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Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.
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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 good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
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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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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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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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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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Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.
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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
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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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I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don't take it personally. Instead, find out what's needed and fix it. If your girlfriend laughs at your tie, don't take it personally. Find another tie or find another girlfriend.
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Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
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How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others.
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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 recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.
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Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.
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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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I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
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Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them
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