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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
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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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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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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
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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 of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.
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Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
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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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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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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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Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.
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Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
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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 confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
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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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What women want is what men want. They want respect.
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Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.
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Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
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Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.
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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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