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An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
Columnist
Journalist
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St. Louis
Missouri
Mistake
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Admit
Errors
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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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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 and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
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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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While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
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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 what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.
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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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Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
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Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.
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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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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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If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
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Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.
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Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.
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The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
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If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.
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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 analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
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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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