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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
Thinking
Positivity
Health
Feeling
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The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
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If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
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A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
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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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Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
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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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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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Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
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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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Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.
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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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Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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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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Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
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The magnitude of an action may change not only the strength of its impact, but the direction. If you became a dentist, for example, you would certainly be an asset to our society. But what if everyone became a dentist? Who would bake the bread? Who would build the houses?
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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
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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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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
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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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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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