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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
Playwright
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Error
Admit
Errors
Refuse
Becomes
Mistake

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Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.
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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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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 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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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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A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
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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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The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
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Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.
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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read
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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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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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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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If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.
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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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Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
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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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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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The lower our self-esteem, the more we're attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves.
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