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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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The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.
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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read
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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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Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
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If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
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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 recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
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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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You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.
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Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
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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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Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
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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 Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly because serious art takes so much time and energy and talent to produce-in favor of what I call `impulse art': art work that is quick and easy, at least by comparison.
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Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.
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Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.
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To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
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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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