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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
Feelings
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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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Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
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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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What women want is what men want. They want respect.
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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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While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
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Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.
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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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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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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 go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
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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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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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Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.
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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
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Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
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Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.
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